Monsters and Mazes

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

As you enter the Sensorium today you find a most peculiar sight.

A large black wall with a 8-bit logo reading "Monsters and Mazes"

And two simple words.

"Start Game."

Upon choosing this a new menu appears showing a series of options:

Fighter
Paladin
Hunter
Rogue
Wizard
Cleric
Bard

What to do what to do?

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[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

With each crystal smashed her fearful face relaxes and she's smiling when the last one is smashed and the ice stops at her chin.

"B-b-brave hero." she chatters in appreciation. "Y-you have o-only one more task please. K-kiss me." Her cheeks were bright red.

[j-y-d.livejournal.com]

Kiss the girl at the end of the adventure? Yeah, he can handle this story ending. He's not quite sure how its supposed to help, but so far, she seems to know what she's talking about, and not like this is a bad thing.

He steps up to the pedestal, leaning in to give her a passionate kiss. Well, as much as possible when one of the people involved is iced up to her chin.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

The kiss was electric! It even seemed to start steam in the air around them.

No in fact it did. The girl was heating up and melting the ice. Her eyes opened with a red hot glow and she smiled against Chase's lips. "My hero~"

The last of the ice melted away and her body was positively glowing with heat. Her clothes burst into flame and spread across her body.

She was no princess. She was a fire elemental and he had just set her free.

[j-y-d.livejournal.com]

One of these days, his weakness for women is going to get him in even more trouble than it already has.
The lack of armor means the metal isn't heating up, but there's also noting preventing burns spreading over his chest and lower face.

Quick reflexes let him pull back before its too severe, but its still not going to be pretty for a while. He's not used to fire banes being all that great at disguising themselves like that.

"Son of a bitch..."

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

The elemental purred and stepped down from the pedistal leaving fire foot prints in her wake. "You rescued me from that Ice demon. Now I'll be free to spread as I please." Her eyes flickered to the window that he had originally seen the glow from. "That forest will do well to feed my power I think."

As she continues to heat up the room the ring he took from earlier begins to grow hot as well, and glow white. Not alot yet but enough to take notice.

[j-y-d.livejournal.com]

Huh, now that's interesting. He's used to the idea of spirit things being able to be bound to, or bound into magical items... really, that's where a lot of the magic he knows comes from.

Moving to block the window, readying his hammer, his main focus is on trying to make the ring do... whatever its meant to do, while he tries to ascertain exactly what that is, other than obviously having something to do with this bitch.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

"Oh ho?" She quirked an eyebrow. "So you saved me and now you want to stop me? How cruel hero. I could have made you my king."

And with that she took flight and shot down the stairs. "More's the pity. But I suppose I'll just have to let you die later to thank you for your service."

[j-y-d.livejournal.com]

Damnit, so the ring isn't some kind of binding tool. Damn. He takes off after her, trying to leap down the stairs for extra power and momentum, trusting to his balance, swinging the hammer as he goes.

"You got ugly real quick."

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

There's a cry of pain as the hammer catches her and the fire licks off her flesh onto his fist and arm burning him, but catching the ring again.

This time it burns so bright it's almost blinding and she screams as the two of them tumble to the floor and crash through it. The Tower is weakened from all the damage and is starting to come apart!!!

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" She shrieks as the fire begins to leave her body and suck into the ring.

[j-y-d.livejournal.com]

Ok, in a collapsing building, fighting something harmful to the touch before it gets away to wreak massive destruction.

He wishes this were the first time.

Actually, its the third.

He grits his teeth against the heat, pushing down on the hammer to try and pin her, and swings the fist with the ring on it, seeing if punching her with the ring-as-brass-knuckle will speed this process up any so he can get the fuck out.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

A solid strike leaving his knuckles singed black, another piercing shriek and her fire is sucked violently into the ring leaving it burning like a candle on his finger. All that was left of the elemental was the ashes of the rug she'd landed on as the stones of the tower began to fall all around him.

[j-y-d.livejournal.com]

Fuck, that hurts. Not the worst he's been hurt, but all the injuries are adding up, and he's not used to not regenerating.

Still, he has the werewithal to go bolting out of the tower, crouched slightly and covering his head, diving for the first opening to daylight.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

The tower crumbles into rubble as the first light of morning begins to rise over the treetops. You made it out alive and even saved the forest...from a threat that you set free.

Either way it's a win win. Plus you could probably sell that ring for a pretty penny since it contains the spirit of a fire elemental in it. Enough to replace your armor or buy even better stuff.

More text scrolling along with stat increases, nothing too amazing but an overwhelming sense of accomplishment...and his injuries healing. After all this is the Sensorium. You can't get hurt in the Sensoriums.

[j-y-d.livejournal.com]

Given that he can't read most of the text without taking a long time to sort it out, the stat increase idea is meaningless, and his usual take from defeating evil is... defeating evil... yeah, all in all, this worked out nicely. Were he home, he'd take the ring to Jack to see what he could make by binding an evil fire whatsit into something else.

In the end, the real reward? "Damn, nice game. I needed the workout."