Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/17(Wed)17:41 No. 930203 ID: 899b77
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You squint, your eyes adjusting to the darkness. The tunnel seems to immediately cut off the light behind you as soon as you step inside. Dust stirs along the floor, though not without patterns and footprints cut into it, letting you know you are not the first to take this entrance, only the most recent. Those shadows feel like they're getting awfully long now. Hm. You can hear the sound of grinding stone. You look down and notice that your foot has alighted on a brick with some other human rune you don't recognize.

Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/17(Wed)17:45 No. 930205 ID: 899b77
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The open entrance is closing behind you. OH GOD, OKAY. YOU'RE DOING THIS. NO TURNING BACK NOW.

You pull off the hood of your cloak, because you won't be needing to shield your sensitive skin from the sun any longer. Your name is Tiger. You are a cutefellow kobold. Big papa Mountain got mad at you screwing up too many times and sentenced you to go to Linley's tomb and find the Orb of Zot.

It's a slightly more polite way of giving you a death sentence. Nobody comes back from the tomb.

Goshdarn is it dark in here. You can barely see. What should you do?

Do not get eaten by a grue! Do you have a torch?

>>930205
Alright, review skills and inventory. Do you worship a god? If so what are their preferred behaviors and sacrifices etc?

>What should you do?
Review your inventory, and think back on what you're good at. You're gonna need all your skills to survive!

>Your only hope for redemption rests on a pedestal, somewhere in the labyrinth beneath.
In interests of keeping you alive, you always could shoot for the lower bar of collecting enough gear and riches to start a new life, and then leaving the dungeon for somewhere other than your old home, instead of trying for a successful orb run and redemption.

>What should you do?
panic

Well, you came down here in a robe so hopefully you have some spellbooks pertaining to underhanded sneakery, or at least a blowgun and some curare-tipped needles. Coming here underprepared is a fast-track ticket to a world of hurt.

Sneak deeper into the tunnel.

Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/17(Wed)18:51 No. 930218 ID: 899b77
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>>930207
You don't have a torch. There are some on the wall, but they're pretty high up.

Wait, what's a grue? Did you say *eaten*?

Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/17(Wed)18:52 No. 930219 ID: 899b77
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>>930211
YUP.

Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/17(Wed)18:55 No. 930220 ID: 899b77
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>>930208
>>930209
>>930214

Okay, okay. You calm yourself down enough to take stock of the situation. You're still panicking, but maybe you can make it a productive panic.

You're Level 1. You don't even know what a magic is. The only God you were ever allowed to worship was Big Papa Mountain, but he kicked you out and you're pretty sure he's not actually a God.

You do have a blowgun though! And you have your shank. You don't have a torch, but you could light one if you found one.

>>930220
Well, the blowgun is gonna be useful for sure. Time to get moving. Sneak down those stairs. Find something that looks dangerous and hit it with a poison dart then steal its stuff.

>>930221
Seconding this, but maybe have a good cry first before you continue on.

>Wait, what's a grue? Did you say *eaten*?
If it makes you feel any better, the alternative to getting eaten is killing and eating (or ritually sacrificing) everything that tries to kill you first.

>You do have a blowgun though! And you have your shank. You don't have a torch, but you could light one if you found one.
Well, your plan for monsters is to sneak up and shank them if you, and if you can't, shoot them with the dark gun and run away while the poison does its work.

Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/17(Wed)19:30 No. 930231 ID: 899b77
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>>930215
Okay, yeah, you should probably get into this. If you get a little further from the door, maybe you'll forget that it's definitely closed, and that you're super locked in here forever!

Maybe.

You walk down the little flight of entrance stairs into the first actual floor of the dungeon. Hey, is that a torch up there?

Don't take the torch. Could be a trap~

Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/17(Wed)19:38 No. 930238 ID: 899b77
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>>930234
You're already trying to take the torch when that thought crosses your mind. No worries, you can't reach it anyway! You are very small. And all alone. And kind of hungry, and it's cold.

Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/17(Wed)19:39 No. 930239 ID: 899b77
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>>930223
Yeah, we're gonna go ahead and have that cry for a minute. This seems like the appropriate time and position to have a cry. That along with every other minute since you got kicked out of the village.

That's no torch! It's clearly a ravenous spider readying its slavering mandibles, oozing with ichor! Which is pretending to be a torch!

Quick! Strike at the spider with your shank! Or cower and whimper helplessly, that works too.

Ok, gather your wits and stay optimistic for a couple of minutes. Continue down the tunnel. I'm sure you'll find the Orb in no time!

Your blowgun is basically a long straight hollow stick, you could use it to push the torch out of its holder from the side. It'd be safer than standing in front if it was by long odds a trap. And if that works, then going to get the other two torches the same way would make sense as well.

Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/17(Wed)20:06 No. 930250 ID: 899b77
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>>930241
You do your absolute best, but it's still just a touch out of reach. Your trusty shank is not very long, and you're already all up on your tiptoes. The stupid torchspider doesn't want to move anyway. Maybe it's depressed too.

Hey, wait. There's some light over there, and you can hear voices. Maybe it's a party? You hear that big people come down into dungeons with parties all the time.

>>930250
Sneak over there to look.

>>930250
Sure. Maybe it's a party of murderous cannibals.

Give yourself a quick hug to make the sad feels go away, and then sneak very carefully towards the voices.

They have light so they arent grues. Then again, nobody knows what a grue looks like as nobody has survived the encounter. Anyway, lets get down to business: rename your shank "shiv" cuz it is a shiv, not a shank. Shank is a verb, and possibly a cut of meat(idk).

Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/17(Wed)23:11 No. 930278 ID: 899b77
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>>930256
You give yourself a hug. Self-love is important, even when you're in a literal, actual dungeon that is also a literal, actual tomb. It totally works too! You're not even crying anymore. You're not-crying so much it's insane.

Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/17(Wed)23:14 No. 930279 ID: 899b77
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>>930249
You decide to try that before you sneak over by the light and voices. It's probably better to have your ranged weapon out anyway. You unequip your shank and equip your blowgun.

>>930263

Hey, wait, is it called a shiv? Is that what you've been doing wrong all this time? Have you been shivving with your shank when you should have been shanking with your shiv? It would explain an awful lot. You don't get to choose what goes on the inventory screen, though, that just kind of happens.

There's some sort of weird creaking noise too, but no time to worry about that. You have a torch to rekajigger.

Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/17(Wed)23:36 No. 930281 ID: 899b77
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And rekajigger it you do! Your blowgun is a little too short to fit into it all the way from the side so you have to stand kind of closer than you wanted to. When it pops out, it hits you right on the dome. You quietly let out your rudest, and most feral of curse words, "Ouchies!"

On the plus side, you add an Unlit Torch to your inventory. Also, that screeching sound is getting crazy loud now. Big folks are so weird.

Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/17(Wed)23:46 No. 930282 ID: 899b77
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Dang, that really smarts. And that noise is getting SUPER LOUD and really OBNOXIOUS, but it should at least make sneaking really ea--Hey, wait, did it just stop?

Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/17(Wed)23:51 No. 930283 ID: 899b77
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Oh, fiddlesticks. That can't be good, whatever it is. You haven't quite mustered up the gumption to turn around and check yet. Did it just get crazy ominous in here, all of a sudden?

Feelgood Chuckletrain 2019/04/18(Thu)00:01 No. 930285 ID: 899b77
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Ah. Yes. Well.

That's very ominous indeed.

>>930285
Is there even anywhere to run? Your only hope of winning is to use a poison dart then stay away until it keels over.

>>930285
Blowgun his face off. Then run your feet off.

Run back to the start and wait until it's close to you. Then dash at it and slide between its legs to pass it.

Maybe the cave-monster can't see in the dark? And you were just going to hide in a corner waiting for the end to come anyway...

Oh, and train that mana! Just waggle your pinkies around and think sneaky thoughts. Obviously actual functional magic would be too much to hope for, but if you are really lucky, then you will drain all your mana and be knocked unconscious by an overwhelming headache! If you can't think about them, then they can't think about you!

Is that a D1 troll? Or maybe a naga? Not sure it has feet.

Blowgun it and run. ...and then probably die, since you came down a hall and can't pillar dance it to death.

Hang on, is that supposed to be a grue? Matches quite a few depictions of them.

Run towards a light!

Poison it and try to run past it towards the lighted hallway.

Shoot it with your blowgun