Part 69: It Was A Graveyard Smash

Leaving Yuki at the bridge, Sam makes his way through the swamp to this ill-tended graveyard.



There are spooky ghosts everywhere! Riding around on the waterwheel, drifting around the gravestones...



... but who cares, swamp chest!



It's full of Eyeballs! Also Scary Essences and a single Amethyst for some reason.



Plus a new Scroll!



aaa ghosts



Sam heads through this archway and up the hill to join Goth Boy.



Yikes.

: Hmmm... this gate is locked tight. And I don't see any gears or mechanisms, Sam.



: Do you know who has the key, Goth Boy?

: Probably Carl...



Goth Boy heads out.

: ... I'm sure he's lurking around here somewhere...

Just then!







Aa! Zombie!



We all arrive in a pack.





Carl abruptly sobers.

: Seriously, though. I'm pretty miserable.

: Hey, do you have the key to the gate over there?

: Yeah, of course I do! I have it with me always!

: Great! We're trying to get to the castle. Can we have it?







because he's about to eat it, apparently

: This key is the most beautiful thing in the world!

: Umm... it is?

: Sure! Look around me. I live in a stinkin' swamp.

Carl sighs.

: It's depressing and slimy and the only thing I have in the world that's shiny and bright is that lousy key...

Carl starts sniffling.

: I know, pathetic, right?



: We have to help him, Sam.

Sam nods to Lyndsay, but once again, Goth Boy is having none of that.





oh, good one, Goth Boy



Carl starts bawling.

: It's AWFUL!!!

: Sooooo... I guess it wouldn't kill us to help a LITTLE bit.

: Good! That's... almost the spirit.



: Please... I can't take this dreary swamp any more!



First things first: clear the patch. The stone skulls are neat, so Sam lines them up around the perimeter. The mushrooms vanish in little puffs of Mana. Now, then. Carl wants Cute and Fun things in his grotesque decaying swamp graveyard, and who are we to say no?



Who are we to say that Zombie Carl deserves less than the best?



And maybe some day he'll have visitors besides us, right?



Piano, full-length royal mirror, random butterflies. Brilliant.





: Guess I don't need that old key anymore! I'll go ahead and unlock that gate.

Carl points up the path towards the spidery gate.





Hoorah! Let's go pull up some weeds. First weed is either Eyeballs or Mana, fifty/fifty chance; second weed is Dead Wood; third weed is G-G-Ghosts; fourth weed is Voodoo Dolls.



While there is a mining wall here, it's stupidly dull and contains nothing we haven't seen before. Metal, Silver, Gold, Amethyst, and Mana. Yes, I'm calling Gold 'dull' now. Digging is equally dull--Stone, Dead Wood, Jade, Amethyst, and the everpresent Mana--and while there is a jackpot, and it is an interesting one, I could not get it to pop. Some day, Alien Essences! Some day!



In the meantime, we found all the Eyeballs and Ghosts we need to finish that Scroll we found in the chest.



: Oh, this stuff looks so cool!



We get a Summoning Circle for all our seance needs!



Right. Through the gate. What fresh hell awaits us at the top of the hill?


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