Post by Aileen on Sept 20, 2021 11:57:45 GMT -5
I try breaking the glass cylinder to get to the lever inside, but as hard as I hit it I don’t even scratch the surface. Hawthorne tries mage handing to no avail, and I’m out of ideas save someone turning into a gerbil and going in the one inch hole. Thankfully our druggie dwarf Elaina does some spell and is able to get the lever pulled- i skitter out and up to the now indented triangle and the skull key fits! Now it’s on to the next door, the square.
The square door leads to a room full of flying parchment. Reading is not my thing, so I tell Hawthorne to go deal with it. She flies in and soon we hear excited hoots as she reads them.
“They’re spells!”
She starts grabbing them and I go in to help. Unfortunately when I grab one, all of the other parchment crumples into dust and suddenly there’s a whirlwind of dust. A little dusty creature appears, and instantly mirrors itself so there’s four of them.
“There’s a dust devil looking thing!” I yell, drawing my mace.
I pop one of the images, and the thing yells out “spindledash!” Just before hitting itself. It blows out a cone of dust at Hawthorne and Elaina, but we quickly finish it off. Hawthorne goes ethereal thanks to the little straw doll she’s carrying around, and pulls the next lever. I pop the head in the wall, and it’s off to the next door.
The Pentagon room is full of a lovely sight- a whole feast is laid out, attended by a short little human guy.
”Try the roast boar!”” Kubazon says to me in my mind. He doesn’t have to ask me twice, it’s all I can focus on!
I rush in and chow down on some boar, making one sided small talk with the human guy. He doesn’t speak, rather gestures, but is nice enough and appreciative that we are eating. Elaina and Hawthorne start fighting over cakes, and I ignore them and apologize to the man as they rumble. Everyone leaves and I take a taste of the squash stew before heading out, only for the Cake Idiots to come in and chug it down.
The next door is the Pentagon. In this room is a mirror with Piggy, Piggy, Piggy written over the wall above the mirror in blood. The others starts lighting candles as the new cleric that ran into us and the paladin advise us to be careful of summoning something. A lever appears when the candles are lit, and the cleric pulls it. Three boarlike dudes jump out of the mirror and attack!
“Hah! Piggy, piggy piggy!” I laugh, before yelling in alarm as one tries to tusk me.
Poor Bastian gets beat to crap and goes down, and I bite one of the pigmen in revenge. Apparently they might be wereboars, but I’m not worried about contracting lycanthropy. I’m already a vampire, can’t do much to phase me. After destroying the three little pigs, we take a rest before going to the next room. And I’m glad we did.
This room has a podium with a book, which Elaina starts to read. Unfortunately after she does, the gravity reverses and she falls to the ceiling, going right through the thin plaster and sucked into a giant bladed fan. Luckily we get her to safety via some rope action by the cleric, and when she’s no longer bleeding out we send her in to read the book again, this time backwards. We head out, successful this time, and I’m just about to climb up and out the head in its rightful place when the three doll things cry out in alarm.
“They’re coming! They’re coming!”
The Sewn Sisters! The three hags appear out of nowhere, surrounding Bastian.
“Ooh, a plump boy!” One cackles. “We will have fun with you!”
“Hands off my man, you old bag!” I shout.
I move in and whack one whose name is Peggy, and then run up the wall. She stares up at me in delight.
“Oh, little spider!” She raises a gnarled, wrinkly hand at me and suddenly I’m filled with terror. I have to escape Peggy at all costs!
She tries casting at Bastian and fails, and when he hits her my grip of terror ends. I’m not afraid of hags! My great auntie Karen is a hag, I’m used to them! Hawthorne turns into a T. rex but then the hags turn her into a kitten, which admittedly is hilarious. We fight tooth and nail, and I’m surprised how hardy these old b****es are. I whack Baggy Nana in the face and she can no longer speak, a problem for a spell caster and a blessing for us! Bastian kills Peggy, and then the other one, but we lose Baggy Nana when she disappears.
“Probably back in the other plane,” Hawthorne sighs. “Damn hags!”
“I don’t think she’ll bother us anymore. She’s scared!” I laugh. “Time for the last head!”
I put the head in the hole and the Skelton gate rises revealing a balcony looking out over a pool of lava. An enormous crystal, filled with wraithlike shapes is suspended over the lava, a parasitic fetus looking thing attached to its side by an umbilical cord. It’s absolutely disgusting. Is this the Soulmonger we’ve been looking for?
”You must make the ultimate sacrifice and die in a blaze of glory!” Kubazon says to me. I feel his pride and lust for battle rise within me, and I know I’m ready. This is what I came here to do- to save the world, and die in the process.
Of course there’s so much I want to live for- Bastian, our possible future together. To see my mom again, return to our manor in the north and see all my vampire family. I have a lot to live for despite being half dead all my life. This adventure has been amazing, despite you know the horrible death curse and stuff. I want to see the sun again, feel it on my face and see the world… I want many things. But my purpose is to save the world and end this curse so others may live. And if I have to die, there is no better time than now.
“I’m ready! DEAAAAATH!!!!”
🌸 Lyssa