You stand up and carefully walk across the roof, your 1/3 syringe of Tarar venom in hand. Soon you reach Blazy and Bonfire, who are fighting two guards armed with swords. Flamy seems to have lost a paw during the fight, and can only produce weak bursts of fire now. Bonfire is doing a lot better, but is also wounded.
One guard's armor is blackened by the fire attacks of your dogs, and he smells vaguely of burning flesh. The other guard, though, is completely unharmed. He is wielding a truly massive sword, and is covered in armor, yet despite all that he seems to have no trouble moving it around. You suspect he is also the one who cut off Flamy's paw, as the dog jumps back each time he moves his sword. He is the first to notice you as you come near.
He lifts his sword into the air with one hand, and begins to talk, in an extremely annoying high-pitched voice: "
I thought you'd get lost and die after you ran into the caves like a coward. But I'm glad you didn't, because now I will have the privile-"
You stab him in the armpit, where his armor consists of nothing more than a shirt, before he can even finish. Anyone with a voice like that doesn't have the right to speak to you. His sword immediately falls out of his hand, and then he hits the ground. You estimate you have about 1/5 of the venom left in the syringe.
You then attack the second guard with your syringe...or at least you try to, but you trip over something and you accidentally stab Flamy with the syringe instead.
Flamy dies instantly, what a useless pawn that dog turned out to be. You wasted the entire syringe on him, too. And while you were distracted with Flamy, the guard tries to attack you again! And somehow manages to stab his own foot with his sword. You didn't even move or anything! Then Bonfire attacks the guard, but he manages to jump back with a sword stuck in his foot. The two split off to the side of the tower, so you can focus on your real goal now; the mayor.
But you are distracted by a loud roar you hear. StanStan was hit by an arrow, in one of his six limbs! Angrily, he tries to run towards the archers, but his left upper limb is still attached to the cage by a chain, as Horl took cover from the arrows behind one of the other cages. This doesn't stop StanStan though, and as he gets closer to the archers he actually swings the heavy iron cage in front of him as a weapon.
Now who gets the first attack just depends on whether the archers can fire before he reaches them. One of them, who was just ready to fire another arrow at you, decides that between you and StanStan, the giant six-limbed mole creature using a heavy cage as a weapon is the more immediate threat. The other archer appears to be out of arrows.
His arrow strikes StanStan in the shoulder, but it doesn't slow him down in the slightest. He reaches the two archers, and swings the cage at them...by which you mean he just drags it along the ground. Still, the archer who actually had arrows left fails to get out of the way and falls into the cage. It's not closed or anything, so he can just get out again, but it's
something. The other archer does jump back, though. She then draws some sort of large dagger. She looks uncertain, like she's not accustomed to using it, but then again it can't be that hard to hit a target as big as StanStan.
While all this is going on, of course, you make your way over to the mayor, who turns around to face you as you get closer. When he does, you notice something odd. This is a different man than the man who desperately tried to stop protesters just a few hours ago. This man radiates control, and power. You even hear it clearly in his voice, when he begins to speak to you:
"
So this is how you treat your leader? Not just killing my men, but now deciding to kill me as well? The man, to whom you owe everything you have had, acquired or done during these last two years since you came to live in MY city? You"-
His voice isn't annoying, far from it, but you decide you should try to kill him now, before any of his guards come to his aid. You rip the arrow out of your arm and lunge at him, but one swift move of his arm knocks the arrow out of your hand. He didn't even seem surprised by your sudden attack! And he looked like such a pushover, too. How irritating.
Skills:
Lvl 1 Animals (6/10 xp )
Lvl 0,1 Magic ( you know a little bit about magic, but can't use it yet )
Lvl 1 Managing (2/5)
Lvl 1 Escape (2/10)
Lvl 0 Speech (2/5) Lvl 0 Gloat (1/5)
Lvl 0 Experiments (4/5)
Lvl 0 Shopping (2/5)
Lvl 0 Blowdart (3/5)
Lvl 0 Stealth (2/5)
Lvl 0 Misc Object User (2/5)
Inventory:
Magic Flashlight
120 moniez
Blowgun and 27 tranquilizer darts, as well as 15 Tarar-venom darts.
1 and 1/3 syringes filled with Tarar's venom.
Book on animals.
Lab equipment: Syringes, spider farming equipment, labcoat, magnifying glass, animal restrainers, scale
Your animals:
StanStan, the large six-limbed mole-ish creature. Hit by two arrows, but not injured badly.
Tarar, the tiny translucent cave spider with deadly venom
3 small, cuddly bunnies with regenerative powers
3 regenerated bunny clones
Flamy the Firedog
Bonfire, the other Firedog. Lightly wounded.
Your henchmen
Horl, your apprentice zookeeper. Also a thief.
Health:
Slightly bruised from the boulder’s attack
Your arm is bleeding and there is an arrow sticking out of it. You are in pain.
Also, a new question for you guys: Dominant emotion in Vivid Villaine ( which I think is our name, correct me if I'm wrong )? Actually, pick two. It's magic-related so choose wisely. The most powerful emotions aren't always the most useful. It probably won't come into play immediately, either, though it may change the way I write inner thoughts and stuff.
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Topic: YOU ARE CAVEDWELLING ZOOKEEPER VILLAIN, the Master Escaper (Read 11423 times)