Part 5: Treasures!

It's a damn shame. I actually do like this theme, and it is quite readable. That door was closed. TINKLEE opened it.

: "You just have to put your back into it!"
: "I have no idea how she does it."


: "EMPTY. WASTED EFFORT. LET'S MOVE ON. IT MUST BE SOMEWHERE AROUND HERE."
: "What is he talking about? Felpurr is curious about it."
: "Didn't you read the flyer? We are here in search of the fabled Cosmic Forge! A strong sword was required, so I answered the call."
: "Felpurr grabbed the first flyer there was when thrown out of tavern. Details unimportnat."
: "So you came here without even knowing WHAT you were going to do? Well, that is a way to get in trouble, I guess."



So yeah. There was nothing on that room. Fortunately, there are other rooms! Also I fucked it up here. Also, notice how THIS map screen is over 10 times as big in a png as the OTHERS. Yeah. I like this one, but it is a)Not as readable, b)Way way way larger in PNG form.



TINKLEE is gonna be our goddamn doorpusher until we get SNAKE or STERV a couple more points into Skulduggery so we can actually PICK the goddamn doors.




Nothing! Oh well. It was worth trying!






Here we have a treasure, though!


When chests are there, we need to INSPECT IT because it will very very likely be trapped. This one is.


Sin? What?


: "I smell a trap!"



: "There is definitely something, but I am not sure what it is..."


: "IT IS EITHER A SET OF VORPAL BLADES, IN WHICH CASE YOU ARE DEAD, OR A POISONED DAGGER, IN WHICH CASE YOU ARE MAIMED AND SUFFERING. CHOOSE WISELY."
: "Poison Dagger!?"


And it was. Hooray.




Hooray! That is a good thing! No one died, and everyone got a bunch of xp.



: "I'll take the Dirks! "



I don't know why I gave this to MONMOON, but I did so there it is.



: "NO! I DEMAND THE MAGICAL GRIMOIRE!"



So, every race can use the Book of Directions, but only mages, bishops, bards and... Uh, samurai? can use it. Not priests, not fighters, not Lords.


Let's give it to DETPOPE.



The Dirk is a thrown weapon. Bah! It cannot be used by priests, bishops or... Uh, I forget what the second M is. Bah.


SNAKE has no points in thrown, last I checked, but he is a ninja, how bad can he be with them?


DETPOPE gets the book.


: "THESE RUNES. THEIR MEANING ELUDES ME!"
: "_{How does someone become a Bishop without learning how to read?}"
: "SILENCE, MINION, I SHALL READ THIS. IN TIME. I WILL!"




Uuuh. Okay. I am gonna assume that this one is a single use spell.



SNAKE gets the cloak though, since MONMOON cannot use it.

: "This should give me a good edge on the battlefield."



There it was.


So let's use one of the pro features in Grid Cartographer! NOTES! You can add several! This was our first treasure. So let us mark it. Also that door on the right is supposed to be on the wall. Should fix that. Eventually.


ADVANCING!



This was probably supposed to be the FIRST though.




: "I'm sure it is clean!"



"A cure but twice, and healing thrice, one life for thee times seven."




We get three potions of light healing, one cure light condition, one poison cure and an amulet of life. Which if the poem it came with was right, will work to revive a character seven times.

: "I SHALL BE THE CUSTODIAN OF LIFE AND DEATH."




So DETPOPE gets the amulet of Life.




A mysterious fountain! Let's see if anything horrible happens!



: "I am parched after kicking all those doors down!"


: "But how does it taste?"
: "Not bad! It is fresh water!"



Behind it we have a door, and two sets of stairs going up.




"Perched high above the room has log turned sour, as it sits condemned to languish in its own final sentence. If there is any last judgement to be decreed upon this fallen chamber and tarnished throne, it must be gleaned from the decay that it laps upon its own dais as itself festers and rots, bearing witness to emptiness, filth and stench, silently weeping tears of its own despoiled substance."

: "THIS THRONE ROOM HAS REMAINED EMPTY FOR FAR TOO LONG. "


So let's see what is in the southern door.


Yeah, this one.


: "Rats! You must be getting pretty hungry, right friend?"
: "Felpurr feels insulted! _{Besides felpurr is not that hungry again just yet.}"



Yeah, so far, we have seen a couple of rat variants, and some vines. Flesh eating vines.


But apparently quite empty. Except that in this corner, if one utilices the "Search" function...



Wait what.


: "A PALTRY SUM FOR A LIFE."




To the north we have...



Unknown, eh? Those unknown things sound rather gross!


Here you find the gross residue.


Directly across the first chest, we have another thing. Also I might've fucked up the map. Damnit, I am bad at this! I will fix it on the next one.



Good.




Huh, nice!

: "I follow the way of the sword. Its honor should fall on my hands."




: "... What IS this thing? It is far too heavy and unbalanced! "


Aaand here we have a slight issue.
The sword of striking is a very good weapon. But no one in the party can use it. Faeries cannot even hold it, it is a big sword.
The only classes that can make us of it are Fighters, Valkyries, and Lords. Oh well.

Next: God damn I hate you, why vote for the EGA theme. Why.
Damnit why must the Sci Fi theme melt my computer.