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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[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

"Well, if you're not gonna call me LORD Bowser," The Koopa King drawled, ignoring the bandit's protests. "Then let's just see what'll give out first: my ability to keep you pinned, or your ribs. And believe me, I can keep this up all day."

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

"Fine Lord Bowser!!!" The Bandit snarled and kicked in frustration. "Now get your lordly butt off me!"

Victory was sweet. Humiliation was sweeter.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

"THAT'S more like it! And in my infinite lordly wisdom, I'm letting that last comment pass, Chuckles."

Bowser briefly entertained the thought of making the Bandit say 'pretty please with a cherry on top,' but he'd already had his fun. With a guffaw, the Koopa King rolled off the poor sap and retrieved his axe, making sure his back wasn't facing the bandit.

"So, tell me. Are there any OTHER surprises waiting for me from point A to point Dragon?"

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

The Bandit was panting with effort and rolled onto his chest to push himself up. "Well be sure not to use the front door. He'll burn you up. There's a second entrance in the bushes." He explained through clenched teeth.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

"A second entrance, huh? How's about I cut you a deal..."

While the bandit was still floored, Bowser picked up the bandit's spear and hefted it somewhere into the bushes off the path.

"You take me there, show me INTO this backdoor cave or whatever so I can make sure it's not one step into a pit of lava, and THEN you get the heck off this mountain. How about it?"

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

"Do it yourself." The Bandit wheezed and started to unclip his armor so it wouldn't keep belaboring his breathing. "I'm not going anywhere near the dragon after losing to you. I'm gonna get as far away as possible so he doesn't feel like hunting me down after he's killed you."

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

Bowser was in a pretty good mood after having stomped all three bandits, so he just laughed again. "Fine! I don't need your help ANYWAY! Just remember that when it's time for MY reign of terror, you're gonna be right on top of my morons-who-need-a-good-stomping list!"

With that, the Koopa King started trudging up the path again, holding his battle axe at the ready (just in case Chuckles thought of pulling something funny).

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

True to his word, when Boswser reached the peak there was a large entrance, and then bushes to the side. The smell of danger was in the air and the sound of heavy deep breathing could be heard echoing out of the darkness from the main entrance.

And the faint sound of a princess crying quietly. Yep, this was the place. Also if he looked out to the right he could see across the land beautifully. This peak had a fantastic view of the kingdom that the dragon was terrorizing. Like they always say, Location, location immolation.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

Bowser DID take a moment to admire the view. He certainly couldn't fault the dragon's choice of kingdoms to terrorize OR the location. Now if only the dragon had put in a lava moat or deathtraps...

... speaking of which, Bowser glanced at the main entrance- he knew fire breaths, and that entrance was a good funnel for making a barbecue out of anyone standing right in front of it- before going over to search the bushes.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

There was another hole here true enough, and it led down a steeper incline with some bones scattered here and there, but the end of the incline was too far away to see and shrouded in darkness.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

... oh, good, a hole that leads into nothingness. Bowser chucked a rock in to try and hear if it'll actually hit bottom.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

It bounced and clunked and landed with an audible "CRACK!" like a twig snapping.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

Bowser thought for a few moments.

He then proceeded to throw another rock down.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

Clack, clack, clack clack, CLUNK.

Echos made every tap louder.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

Bowser hefted an even BIGGER rock, nearly the size of his head, and hurled it down, as well.

Might as well kill SEE if there were any big angry monsters waiting at the bottom, right?

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

This time the sound was something like...

RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE

CRACK!

CRASH!

CRUNCH!

This was punctuated by a low dangerous growl coming from the main entrance.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

Oh, THIS should be interesting.

Bowser kept hurling any rocks and small-ish boulders within reach down into the hole.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

As the crashing and tapping and smashing noises continued the growling got louder, and heavy thumping foot stomps began to shake the area.

The main entrance lit up brightly as a sound all too familiar to Bowser echoed out. The Dragon was about to blow fire.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

... right. That was Bowser's cue to hug the side of the mountain. If there were still bushes around the side entrance, then the dragon's fire breath CAN'T reach this far to the side if it breathed out from the front entrance.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

Bowser's logic was admirable and worked for the time being. Intense heat blasted out of the entrance sending waves of hot thick air pouring over Bowser and heating up his armor and burning the ground outside his cave to a thick black stone.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

Wow, this guy was GOOD.

Without waiting for the blast of fire to die down, Bowser ducked into the side entrance, counting on the dragon's overwhelming noise to muffle the sound of his sliding down.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

Another smart move by the King of the Koopas! Because as the fire died down thunderous shaking and noise warned the Dragon was checking his front entrance for his freshly cooked meal. If he hadn't have moved he'd have been seen.

Unfortunately the bottom of the side entrance isn't as nice as the front, in fact it's littered with skeletons and trash, broken bones, rocks (Mostly thrown there by Bowser) and an uncomfortable amount of slime.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

Bowser's lip curled. Why did the dragon even KEEP a side entrance? Flood the place with lava, and enemies would HAVE to come in through the front entrance... where they'd be horribly barbecued.

The Koopa King stomped through the cave, kicking aside bones and skeleton bits with abandon, and avoided the slime the best he could.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

It seemed this was some kind of trash area for the dragon as more remains littered the area. It became darker and darker as Bowser progressed until the light from the entrance was extinguished all together.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

And Bowser's FIRST instinctual reaction is to... try and breathe fire.