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[Flagrarus]

You struggle to come up with a believable lie that would leave you blameless.

"Well, you see, there was this...uhm...the mayor stole money from...uhm...Ryan, and then Ryan found out and confronted him about it. And then...uhm, Ryan told the mayor that he would tell everyone unless he got his money back before the end of the week, but...the mayor couldn't pay him because he had spent all the money already. So he came up with a plan to get rid of Ryan, and not be...blamed. He caught a spider and then, he uhm..."

You pause for a moment. Just when the guard and the mayor both open their mouths to say something, you contine.

"And then he made the spider kill. Ryan, I mean. No, I mean he made the spider kill Ryan. And then Horl...found out about this, and that he wanted to blame the zoo. And then he said that, uhm, Horl couldn't tell anyone because, uhm, otherwise the mayor would kill him too. So it is all his fault."

Everyone looks at the mayor as he begins to defend himself.

" Dear citizens, you know me. You know I would never steal money from anyone, and you know that I would never harm any of you. This man is obviously in legion with the zoo, and he is trying to turn you against me with his made-up stories. The zoo must have had some kind of grudge against Ryan, if they weren't satisfied with him losing his skin during that incident with the mole creature. The previous mayor should've closed the zoo just for that, but instead he let them stay, and look at what happened to Ryan because of it! Now, we won't be able to break through these stone gates for a while, but we can start by taking out the zoo's allies! This man is probably just as guilty of Ryan's death as the zookeeper himself, and deserves no mercy!"


Your lie seems to have turned the mayor against you, and now he has convinced the crowd to kill you before bothering with the gates and Horl. You estimate there is about a hundred of them, far more than you have darts. This...this is not a good situation for a supervillain to be in.

Skills:

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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 (1/5)
Lvl 0 Escape (2/5)
Lvl 0 Speech (1/5)
Lvl 0 Experiments (4/5)
Lvl 0 Shopping (2/5)
Lvl 0 Blowdart (2/5)

Inventory: 

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Magic Flashlight
120 moniez
Blowgun and 28 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:

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StanStan, the large six-limbed mole-ish creature
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

Health:

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Slightly bruised from the boulder’s attack

[FuzzyZergling]

Darn it.
Run, leading them deep into the caverns where you can lose them.

[Flagrarus]

You flee into the deeper caverns.

You run away, taking all the shortcuts and secret passages that you know of in order to stay ahead of your pursuers. You even manage to lead them through some traps meant to keep beasts out of Sjingpingpong, and from the sounds of it the traps end up killing a lot of them. Eventually, you jump over a large pit in the middle of a large cave, separating you from the people still chasing you. Some of them try to jump after you, but none of them manages to reach you, and instead they fall to their deaths. There are only 10 or so people left ( some of them gave up at some point during the chase ), and they can't reach you. You notice the mayor is not among them.

On the side of the cave where you are now, there are two stairs, one leading up and one leading down. You don't recognize this place, so you don't know where either of them leads. There is also a slope on this side of the room, that you could use to descend to the bottom of the pit. There is a tunnel there that has an odd glow coming out of it, not like the lights you can find in the rest of Sjingpingpong.

Skills:

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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 (0/10)
Lvl 0 Speech (1/5)
Lvl 0 Experiments (4/5)
Lvl 0 Shopping (2/5)
Lvl 0 Blowdart (2/5)

Inventory: 

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Magic Flashlight
120 moniez
Blowgun and 28 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:

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StanStan, the large six-limbed mole-ish creature
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

Health:

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Slightly bruised from the boulder’s attack

It's like the game decided that you would be skilled in escaping for me. I think every escape roll you've had so far has been higher than 85, maybe even 90. Actually, I'll make you level 1 in Escape. Because you deserve it.

[Megaman]

Kill the mayor with a blow dart and continue shooting(tranq's this time) so they run away. Then continue getting out of here.

[Evergod41]

He isn't there, and we might not have the range, or accuracy, we will need the darts to explore the unknown, head down the stairs first.

[FuzzyZergling]

I think we should head downstairs.

[Doret]

Head UP the stairs, who knows it might even lead to the Surface.

[Flagrarus]

Sorry Doret, seems you are outvoted.

You head down the stairs, turning your back on the people on the other side of the pit. As you do so, they start throwing the table legs and sharp rocks they were carrying as weapons.

Their projectiles fail to get anywhere near you, though. In fact, you turn around just in time to see one of them fall into the pit. Apparently he forgot that to throw stuff, you have to let go first. You can't let them get away for a bit, so, like any good villain, you gloat a bit about the predicament they are in.

You start off with an impressive evil laugh, always a crowd favorite. Then, you tell them: "Your friend there had the right idea. Better to die a swift death like he and all those other people did, than wander around this underground maze until you die of starvation. Or maybe the beasts will get you? There's some particulary nasty ones down here, cruel creatures that make StanStan seem like...well, a healing bunny. They will kill you, slowly, rip you apart, melt you with acid, you will be in agony for the rest of your short life. Unless, of course, any of you know the way out from here?"

The survivors look at each other, scared and broken. You wait for a bit, to let them realize the hopelessness of their situation, then continue: "Then you will never get out alive. Like I said, you would probably have been better off if you had followed your friends off the edge of the pit. It's not too late for that, you know. I promise it will hurt far less than anything else that could happen to you down here. As for me...I know the way back up to Sjingpingpong."

You walk towards the stairs leading down. One of them shouts at you from across the pit: "Tell us how we can get out of here! Please! We'll do anything! We don't want to die yet, we..." You interrupt him. "You should have thought of that before you tried to kill me, now shouldn't you?"
As you walk down the stairs, you can still hear him, begging you to come back and save them. You think you hear one of them crying, too. All very satisfying, really, but you wish you had been lying about the maze these caves are. Or about the beasts.

While you are thinking about how to get out of here, you slip and end up falling off the stairs. Thankfully, you land in something soft and aren't really injured, although it does hurt. Also, while the staircase was lit, it's completely dark where you are now, and you're not sure from which direction you fell. You hear some loud scraping noise. What could it be?

Skills:

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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 (0/10)
Lvl 0 Speech (2/5) Lvl 0 Gloat (1/5)
Lvl 0 Experiments (4/5)
Lvl 0 Shopping (2/5)
Lvl 0 Blowdart (2/5)

Inventory: 

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Magic Flashlight
120 moniez
Blowgun and 28 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:

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StanStan, the large six-limbed mole-ish creature
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

Health:

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Slightly bruised from the boulder’s attack

Gloating is counted as a sub-skill of Speech, I guess. So you could get a +3 from Speech, but if you level up in Gloating you also get the +3 from that. Sorry the gloat was so long, too, but...you guys rolled really high (not a 100, though. I would have told you if you did)

[FuzzyZergling]

Needlessly loquacious gloating is the mark of a true villan!
Now stand up and head away from the scraping.

[Armok]

Needlessly loquacious gloating is the mark of a true villan!
Now stand up and head away from the scraping.

Yeah!!!!!!!!.gif

[Megaman]

Do it while laughing EVILLY.

[Doret]

Have a guilt trip, rush up the stairs and tell them the way out.

Okay, don't do that. Go towards the scraping noise, and try to calm down the animal that might be there.

[Flagrarus]

You decide that whatever the scraping is, it's probably bad, and you should try to get away from it. Or...escape from it? Sure, you'll "escape" the scraping noises.

Of course, you are extremely good at escaping anything, and so you find your way around in the dark without ever running into a wall. In fact, after running through dark tunnels and up staircases, you finally see lamps again. You look around for a bit and realize where you are: on one of the staircases of The High Tower. These staircases start in Sjingpingpong, and after climbing them ( which takes a long time, actually ) they lead you into the High Tower, which protrudes out of one of the lower mountain peaks. You try to decide where to go now, when you hear people running up the stairs. You try to hide yourself before they can see you.

You run into one of the rooms, but you were spotted. You hear somebody walking towards the room. "Why are you hiding like that?" she asks.

Skills:

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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 (0/10)
Lvl 0 Speech (2/5) Lvl 0 Gloat (1/5)
Lvl 0 Experiments (4/5)
Lvl 0 Shopping (2/5)
Lvl 0 Blowdart (2/5)

Inventory: 

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Magic Flashlight
120 moniez
Blowgun and 28 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:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

StanStan, the large six-limbed mole-ish creature
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

Health:

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Slightly bruised from the boulder’s attack

Seriously, I should just give you guys some kind of intrinsic escape magic or something to explain all these high rolls you get for it. At least you're back in Sjingpingpong

[Armok]

> escape.

[Flagrarus]

Sure, your escaping luck has to run out at some point...

You're in an underground room, with no windows, and the only door leads directly to the person you're trying to escape from?
Clearly this won't stop you, the Master Escaper! You open the door and run, run away extremely...oh no wait you just ran into a group of 3 people and knocked them over. You recognize two of them, they were among the protesters!

"Hey, it's that other zoo guy! Get him!" one of them shouts. They're all on the floor right now, but you hear more of them coming up the stairs.

Skills:

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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 (1/10)
Lvl 0 Speech (2/5) Lvl 0 Gloat (1/5)
Lvl 0 Experiments (4/5)
Lvl 0 Shopping (2/5)
Lvl 0 Blowdart (2/5)

Inventory: 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Magic Flashlight
120 moniez
Blowgun and 28 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:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

StanStan, the large six-limbed mole-ish creature
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

Health:

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Slightly bruised from the boulder’s attack