Part 7: The Southern Towers

Very well, let's go up. Through this silly tower. Sci Fi theme works now. Once again, thanks, Hidden Asbestos!


: "Whose footsteps are these?"
: "It was no footstep, it was a bump."
: "We better follow it, then."



: "Those WERE footsteps, I am sure of it! "




: "I think this is the top. of this tower."


: "Stop picking them up, STERV!"
: "But it would be a waste to just leave them on the floor."


Gasp!


Ah, a door!




: "IT SEEMS WE ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS CASTLE. "
: "We already knew that. Well, if those bushwhackers count as "Someone"."



Not the friendliest person, eh?




And right now, we cannot. We do not have a response to the person.



The tower flares up and leads to the outside.


So there is more than just this castle here, eh?

: "Ah, fresh air. Good way to clear one's head after the stale air and moldy interiors."
: "FRESH AIR IS NOT GOING TO MAKE FINDING THE COSMIC FORGE ANY EASIER. GET BACK INSIDE."



I messed up this map here. Eh.




So let's go back inside.




And let's go through here.



Well that was uneventful.


Let's climb the other tower.



So far it is pretty much thes same thing, but with less bumps and less footsteps.





And on the third floor, it is identical. Again, in the other one, I fucked up the mapping.





: "I think there is something or someone watching us."



: "AGH! Flying rats!"




Two vampire bats and a regular one. Oh joy.


MONMOON can help Sterv with the "disable the enemy through sleep" thing, now affording to cast it a bunch of times.


3 on level 1, 6 points on level 2. Let's go with the level 2 one.





Tinysan seems to be getting better at things, but Snake is perilously close to dying.


It all goes well and they drop a bunch of XP.



SNAKE levels up! And is now a Genin.



We want people that can detect traps AND open doors. Yeah. Hiding is all well and good but we also need goddamn utility!


DETPOPE also got a level and ONE MEASLY SKILL POINT. Damnit that is not a good levelup.



But since it is a shame that he can't read or write, let's give him one there.


He also gets a spell, but we are not wasting it on Direction. No sir.
Armor of Earth.



Because if we use this, he gets Direction in his spellbook. If used in the field directly, it is a single cast of it. We don't want that.



: "YES. MY GRIMOIRE GROWS."
: "Did he... Suddenly become literate? Well that is new."
: "SILENCE. I SAID IT WOULD COME BACK TO ME EVENTUALLY. SOONER RATHER THAN LATER IT DID."



And now with the direction spell, we have a magical compass.

: "WHAT KIND OF ADVENTURING GROUP STARTS A JOURNEY WITHOUT A COMPASS? A DOOMED ONE. NOW WE HAVE NO NEED OF ONE, BUT IT WAS A TERRIBLE OVERSIGHT."




: "The mountains don't give back what they take..."




Is there anything behind that closed door?



Oooh, goody!




And pf cpirse, being armor, it cannot be used by faeries. Fighters, thieves, bards, valkyries, lords and Samurai can use it.


So TINYSAN is now slightly better protected than he was with the robes.




Next: The other two towers, I guess.