Chapter 58: The Plot Thickens... Like Gravy!

Travis: It doesn't hurt, though.

Dayn: The fire?

Travis: Nope... or all my nerves have already been fried.

Jerrica: *sigh* More Nerve Repair castings down the drain.

Travis: Oh, shut up, at least you can cast that correctly instead of Reduce Pain... also, I just remembered I'm immune to fire...

Jerrica: Oh, right. And, actually, I got the spells switched accidentally with some spell called Cause Pain. Those runes look so alike!

Travis: ... Are you suggesting to me that you are not, in fact, incompetent?!

Dayn: Uh, Travis, since we've gotten most of our new powers, NONE of us are really incompetent.

Travis: But... but the...

Dayn: *cleaving through a swordsman* I can FAR outmatch these pathetic bladesmen... *disarms a Ratling Fencer*

Jerrica: *slits a goblin's throat without even looking* Scalpels = win.

Akki: *kills five hobgoblins at the same time with Magic Missile* STRIKE!

Dutchess: Mm, jackal meat! ^.^ *chewchewmasticategnawchew*

Travis: ... I think my brain just exploded. When exactly did we all become competent?!

Dayn: It seems like yesterday I was cowering in fear from ants, I know.

Wind Grue: HALT!

Travis: OH GOD NO! *hides behind Dayn*

Dayn: Huh?

Travis: I'm not getting eaten again. D:

Wind Grue: Oh, I don't do that old regular grue trick. I just tear you apart using tidal wind forces.

Travis: Oh. That's much easier to deal with. *ker-KICK*

Wind Grue: X_X DAH.

Jerrica: We must be getting close to the Orb of Wind now... hope it's easier to get than the bloody fire orb.

Dayn: Tell me about it, my mithril sword is still melted around the edges.

Akki: (They're getting too close to the wind orb... got to delay them... need distraction... THAT'S IT!) Does anyone else notice that things are becoming blurred around the edges?

Travis: What?

Dayn: What are you talki-

Akki: LOOK OVER THERE

Dayn: O_O

Travis: O_O

Dutchess: >_>

Jerrica: X_X

Akki: *chain teleport*

*The party suddenly finds itself in Dwarftown*

Travis: Whoa!

Dayn: That was weird. What happened?

Akki: Probably another quirk of those damn caverns. >_> <_<

Dutchess: <_< Is everyone an idiot but me?

Jerrica: Good doggie ^.^

*later*

Demented Ratling: YE ART DE UN!

Travis: What? What are you talking about? Dayn ran off to go talk to Thrundarr, he's the one you want to talk to... damn Paladin stealing my thunder. :(

Demented Ratling: Oh no, YE art da une I'm looking for. I must receive six *demonic voice* ChAoTiC ArTiFActs */demonic voice*, and then I shall show you the way!

Travis: What is it with people and demonic voices?! Anyway, the way to WHAT, exactly?

Demented Ratling: You already possess one part of the Chaos Trinity... you need but two more to become all-powerful, my liege! I know where a second i-

Travis: WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO?! *seizing the demented ratling and shaking him* TELLMETELLMETELLMETELLMETELLMETELLME!

Demented Ratling: Not so fast! *shoves away from Travis* Lunatic! I need those artifacts first, and the "chaotic" part was all flashy. Damn union rules. Just give me some yummy artifacts. Gimmie gimmie gimmie!

Travis: You need help.

Demented Ratling: I can quit whenever I damn well want, now GIMMIE!

Travis: Sheesh, okay. Here, have this black book jobbie with all the spells in it.

Demented Ratling: *gulp* Ahhhhh... any more?!

Travis: What about this-

Demented Ratling: *gulp*

Travis: Or this thing that Dayn fou-

Demented Ratling: *slurp*

Travis: Okay, creeping me out here... GET OFF THAT! *shakes the demented ratling off from where he was gnawing on the Rune Covered Trident*

Demented Ratling: Sorry.

*several useless or marginally useful artifacts later*

Demented Ratling: Ahhh. You have fulfilled me!

Travis: Whatever you say, junkie.

Demented Ratling: To the northwest lies the Stone Circle... it can only be entered during the moon of Darknight. You must enter with only one other, and you must keep trying if you are to succeed! It does not permit passage easily.

Travis: Darknight?! That's coming up soon! We don't have much time! *zooms off* DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYN!

Demented Ratling: Sucker.

*in a few short seconds*

Travis: *zooms by, scooping up Jerrica, Dayn, Dutchess, and Akki all at once and leaving several miniature hurricanes in his wake* GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO

Thrundarr: *severely flustered* BLASTED YOUTH AND YOUR BOOM-BANG MUSIC, ALWAYS GETTING EVERYWHERE IN A HURRY! WHY DON'T YOU SLOW DOWN?! *rant, rave, etc*

Dwarven royal guard: With all due respect, sir, shut up. Please!


© 2008 Daniel Muir