Ow, I said.
Then I touched the bump on my head. Oww!
I was crouching down on the second floor platform, both hands pressing down on a nice lump with my eyes closed. It took a while before the pain ebbed away and I dared to open my eyes and look down at just what had bonked my head.
There was a spade on the ground, just sort of laying there, with a cross-shaped handle and a shaft made of a whitish wood. The tal bit at the end looked nice and new and there was a big J embossed on the plate.
Really? I asked.
The Dungeon was being very rude with its rewards. Still, a new... weapon of sorts was better than nothing. I wondered if it counted as makeshift? It was a good thing that my reward hadnt been a mace.
I picked up the spade and swung it around a little to test its weight and balance. I could tell from my experintal swings that I knew nothing about swinging any sort of weapon around. Insight.
A Spade of Jacks, new.
Huh. Okay, so a sort of gift for finishing the last room by helping Jack. I wonder if clearing the room in other ways gives other rewards? Do you know, mister nu?
The Insight information box popped away. Poor mister nu was so shy.
I shook my head and pulled up the screen for Insight.
Insight
Rank D - 100%
The Ability to know sothing. The knowledge you gain is further increased.
You have no General Skill Points! You cannot increase Insight to Rank C!
Whats a general skill point? I wondered aloud. It wasnt a Class Skill Point. I had two of those just sitting around and trying to think about clicking them to Insight just made my head feel fuzzy. So that wasnt it. Oh well, a question to ask soone once I was out of here and found civilisation.
Well, onwards, I said as I hiked my backpack back on.
The path down was filled with mushy mushrooms to skip from. I was a little less careful this ti since I was so close to the ground floor already. I was pretty sure that with Jumping at rank D I could survive the fall mostly unhurt, and each mushroom down made that a little more likely.
Then a caterpillar stuck its head out from behind one of the mushrooms and blew a thick plu of pinkish smoke at .
I waved a hand before my face, but the thick smoggy smoke was already down my throat. That was one rude caterpillar.
It pulled out a large hookah and took another big puff, cheeks ground big as it got ready to spray again.
Then I landed on its head.
Ding! Congratulations, you have smoked hookapillar, level 2!
I landed at the base of the Dungeons pillar coughing like mad. My first step missed the ground and when I stumbled and tried to reach the wall it was to find it a whole foot farther than I had thought. It didnt help that everything felt like it was spinning just a little bit, like one of those tea-cup rides at amusent parks but really slowly.
I-insight, I said, aiming the skill onto myself.
A very high Cinnamon Bun, level 3.
I... I had taken drugs? Was this the peer pressure my family had warned about. My mom would be... mildly disappointed that I had smoked sothing without taking the proper precautions. There was only so much disappointnt a mostly-ex hippie could give when it ca to the subject of drugs. Id seen my parents pictures of their ti at Woodstock.
Oh no, I was thinking in tangents!
Was it the drugs?
Was I a delinquent now? I didnt look good in black, and wearing spikes would make less huggable!
nu! I said and grabbed at the manu when it appeared. Quick, I need a drug resistance power, quick!
The nu popped away with what I imagined, or hoped I imagined, was a huff of annoyance.
It was okay, I could figure it out.
I started pacing the bottom of the dungeon, eating a circle around the small hill in the middle while taking big, huge gulps of air to clear my system. A few glances here and there and the occasional snoop behind so of the sharp rocks surrounding the clearing didnt reveal much at all. I decided that I might as well waste ti productively and sat down with my back to the wall and took out my map making gear, which was mostly the sa bit of coal and my dungeon map.
Adding the additional rooms and so details ate up nearly half an hour.
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