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]

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.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

An unfortunate problem seeing as Half-orc's can't do that...he might spit a mean loogie though.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

Bowser glared at the ceiling. "Alright, you know what? SCREW the rules!"

This being the Sensoriums, Bowser exerted his OWN power to shift himself back into his big ol' Koopa self.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

That was sudden...and entirely effective. If Bowser could see Beastboy he'd probably have a good laugh at the look of shock and confusion. The ground rumbled as Bowser's mass suddenly increased sharply.

The armor shifted with him though so now he was twice as dangerous. It even conformed to his shells spikes and pointy bits.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

"Gwahahaha! MUCH better." Bowser flamed out, trying to light SOME piece of debris on fire to make light to see by.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

The slime was surprisingly flammable...and sounded like it was screaming, but no matter. The cave was lit and Bowser could see the rest of the way. Some boulders had been stacked up to block the entrance back into the Dragon's lair.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

Ignoring the screaming slimes, Bowser stomped right up to the boulders and started punching them, trying to see if his strength would be enough to break through to the other side.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

The boulders crumbled like cheap cookies opening way into...

...a humble kitchen area? A pot of bubbling stew sat on the stove smelling delish.

The kitchen was rustic and mid-evil for sure, but it was fully stocked complete with what looked to be entrance into some kind of magic deep freezer.

[king-of-koopas.livejournal.com]

... okay, THIS was not what he'd expected.

Bowser looked around, vaguely confused, and... trundled over to the stove to see what kind of stew it was.