《the hero, the villain,and the profiteer》a17 highs and lows
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[yami]...now.. time to get to work on some projects, and tests, i can make a basic moter, mechanisms and bullets, so i c make chainsaws and a basic gun, but thats for after some maitanence(checks screen)..so i can atach an effect to a space, but only if i have it's magic,and at a upkeep cost proportinal to the area space;so i can have an area that heals, is holy, or has illusions,.so i'll add the growing illusion of fake walls in the maze, move the keys to the rooms before the door there...hmm maybe i should set a boss for my old room, like how i'll move the pit to the side room, get rid of that door, and conect it to a small tunel to the haven path..i don't have enough yet for monster possesion in the store; so that one's off the table., the room before it is now an art room....but a baphomet would be nice for that.
[tink, flying in, with a fabulous look]..most have a theme, you know?
[yami]well mine is dreams and nightmares.
[tink] so random crap, so no one can guess what's next?
[yami] yes; pretty much
[tink]..blasphemer.
[yami] zellot.
[tink](leers).......
[yami] enough banter, i never asked you yet but(opens screen)
Essentials
dungeon core creation:500
monster respawn:500
item edit:purchased
boss promotion:500
monster possession:700
domain teleportation:purchased
lord respawn:10,000
what would be the pointof a core?
[tink] it stores mana an maintains the effects set for the dungeon while you're away.
[yami].hhuh..so like abattery/ AI to run it
[tink]..yes...i think i just said that, before you rephrased it in a way i couldn't know the meaning of.
[yami]..wait..that leads to some questions,..like..i can makemore than one dungeon?
[tink] yes,..and any enclosed space can become a dungeon space....even a crack on a rock..thats why manny arein the side of mountains.
[yami]...can i...telepoort between the diferent dungeons i make?
[tink] yes.
[yami]...anyway. while your here, can i have a boss without promoting one?
[tink]......you can stick the candidate into the room but they won't be ""the boss"..when they'r promoted they evolve into the next form, and get a respawn quicker than normal, and can be eddited more thoroughly.
[yami]..neat..i wanna make the baphomet a pan.
[tink](thinks for a moment)....i know you don't mean a kitchen tool...but-
[yami]..pan is a myschivous satyr like god of nature.
[tink]OOOOOOOH..thats cool...you can do that.baphomets are a low-level demi, goat like, and atuned to nature, fire, water, and air, so it should be relativly easy a modification..but it'll stil breath fire
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[yami] good, pan likes booze....so i need to pump up my generaters to purchas the abilaty, but in the mean time,CHAINSAW TIME!
[tink] IM LEAVING !(begins leaving the room)
[yami] YOU LOOK FABULOUS BY THE WAY!
[tink] YOU CAN THANK THOSE PETITE PLASTIC PARASITES YOU SET TO PURSUE ME FOR VIOLATING MY PERSON!!
[yami]thanks, i will!
(after that pleasent banter, he gets to work on a chainsaw, using small parts like beltbuckles for tthe base of some of the parts,half way agoblin brings him two bottles and a glass, one filled with icetea, and the ogtherpure ethonal, he swigs the alcohole, then pour someinto the storage tank, than continues on,serveradenisins looking at him working, after all the basic parts are finished, he makes the primer,makes the blades out of a standard chain, tests it on his working desk[by cuttinb through it], turns to the on-lookers,and says"who's first", they ran.)
..chainsaw goblins...i guess they wanted them later, where they work...(the work desk is whole again, after disintigrating and reforming)
(translated to human due to not wanting to bother typing it all backwards)
(in the goblin mini village moved to the haven path, due to that having less foot traffic by humans, and a lake in easy access, the gobs spar, smoke the plants and eat the game they gatheredon there excursions to outside.
[goblin cheif]....lovely...i know of my kinds hardships, but here...it is peaceful(exhales smoke from his mouth and inhales from his long pipe), those who hunt are still in danger when they leave, but we don't have to move due toinvasion from humans, we even have entertainment simmilar to the reverse situation....(puff pipe repeatadly in pondering the moral quandry)...that madman might have made the tiny devils that keep trying to steal our young, but he is providing a shelter for my people here.
( goblins,one female and 3 males, rush up the stares to the cheif's hut)
[gob1] cheif!, the madman has made a thing most dangerous, and i think he plans on using it on us, we ran but, he can popup anyware, so im scared.
[femgob] it looked like a sword, but a bladed chain moved alond it's edge. it could probiblykill by pressing it against somone.
[goblin cheif]....im...shure he's not gonna...kill...us.
(a figure looms over behind him)
..what?...why are you making those faces?..(turns around to the madman with a grin that 9is too big for his mouth,or atleast, how his mouth usualy is sized, now it's from ear to ear)
(thay almost pissed themselves at the sight)
[yami]..helooo~~...would you like a chainsaw(he drops 3 chainsaws into the hands of the cheif, the female and on of the males)..go play with these chainsaws,use them on intruders..it'll be most entertaining to see it.
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(he sees them not knowing what todo, so he grabs one, and turns it on in front of them)
[cheif] OOOOOH,...well,..thats look like these could be useful, as a deturent against agressers, and on trees for lumber.
[yami] yes..i think.
[femgob](turns it on)......i kinda want to kill somthing with this
[yami]....i hope you do...i don't have the internet, so this is my entertainmen for awile...also, those are powered by alcohol, so drink up biches!
[femgob]......im loving this already.
[cheif] don't you start!...(turns to yami and speaks his languige) can...you...make..one..handed...kind?
[yami] i forgot about chainswords!....well, it will have to be smaller; but i can make one.(poofs away)
[cheif]...okay..that should keep him busy..(grabs it out of there hands) gimmie those,...this is all stupid!..don;t give into your baser desires, even if the objects are dangerous,and loud,.....and smells good..and...and feels good when it vibrates in your hands..and-......(tries to run off with the chainsaws, but the 4 others give chase, and catch him)
[yami]...lovely, you get aquanted with that while i do some planning.(walks away, in a shuffiling manor) good thing i found out i can make paper a hour ago, my man steed was gonna get a serious infection if i carved much more into his soft back flesh; especialy since i tend to doodle.
(back in his cottage)
[tink,seeing yami after finishing treating venen's{AKA man-horse} back wounds]..why are you so violent to this guy anyway?
[yami, after ploping down in a chair]...after we captured them, I learned that he was planning to rape me...he has done that before, and was expecting me to be small and child like.
[tink, stunned at how cashualy he said that].....im sorry,..what?!...well,..that is an effective means of establishing dominence
[yami] no,...he's a kiddie didler.
[tink] oh..oh...OOOOOOOOOH!..
[yami]..yeah, like a video on fast forward is how i saw it....saw it ALL...
[tink]....well shit.....
[yami] i know,it disgusts me, and is why im gonna wipe the fighter's minds eventualy..atleast the section after they left there homes....so it won't play on repeat. every day...for over half of them.
[tink]....damb...can we please not talk about that kind of...thing...
[yami] (almost forced smile)i do like to be manic, to pretend to be happy...untill i am.
[tink] wha-?
[yami] fake it till you make it, baby.
[tink sternly] im not your baby....
[yami]...shall i talk about my leather bound scientific journal then?
[tink] oh, well that sounds lovely(yami hands her it), ooh, soft,what kind of leather is it?
[yami, likelicking a tastly lolipop] hu-man skin~
(she drops it in disgust like a dead dog)
(exlanatorily)mainly of the fallen children....as a momento of sorts...before i esentialy ate them, ya-know.
[tink]....EW!, i touched it.
[yami] apperenly one of them had a necklaas vial of oak derived tannin...must've been a momento of home.....don't worry, it was one of the live ones....i also used recreations of the chemical extract to make iron gall ink for the illistrations.
[tink]..well thats....neat.....i guess.
[yami]...well...im gonna make more rooms for the paths....atleast the designs for them.
[tink] oh, thats good,..will you be using the GALL INK?
[yami] still not over the book thing?
[tink] THAT WAS 12 SECONDS AGO,....so yes...it takes me atleat 30 to ge over you tricking me for your amusment....atleast at this leve of tomfoolery.....that is still too soon to be healthy...besides..itseems alittle...soon to be making more floores
[yami] thats why im not,im planning them in advanced...the next few are gonna be like silent hill...i love the thought of making my own silent hill....*ihuq*...*ique*...*iq~*
[tink]....silent...hill?...but....dungion....not...hill......wha?
[yami] i'll explain later...but it will basicly be people facing there own inner demons...with the likelyhood of actualy dying.
[tink]...hhuh,..neat. so you're gonna be sticking to a theme?
[yami] yes in fact, i did name it "of dreams and nightmares"... so my first dungeon will involve alotofmessing with people...it will also be my main home in the future after i expand and make more dungeons.
[tink] good plan, most dungeon masters in the past did the "first one is home" kind of thing.but just remember to install a core before you make a second one.
[yami] yeah, yeah, i remember,..the hell path will also house my experamental chambers.
[tink in a moment of morbid curiosity]....what would be an example of your...experiments, anyway?
[yami] they range from onesinvovlking organ transplant and enhancement to a concept i have in my head that i will call "the orgasm room"...to see if anyone will have the willpower to leave it before they starve to death like male fruit-flies and paist made from their females......
[tink]...so testing the limits of humans.
[yami] and to make fleshy monstrosities to start up my army to conqure the surounding area, but yes,mostly that.
[tink]...ah...so you're gonna make it harder for people to conqure you...smart....silly way to do it, but still.....apperentl im used to you now
[yami] good.
[tink] i hate it.
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