Hello Codex. It's been a while, but here we are. Without further ado:
We come upon our heroes in the midst of grinding.
They fall easily.
After a bit of wandering through the city, we find this place:
We hear about how good of hunting the mosters outside are. So, our next step in our minds is to go outside of the city.
A bit of background:
Cities in M&M Book I are underground because of the rise of the dragons many decades ago. These dragons drove the people underground. So, the above ground is essentially abandoned by all but adventurers. (At least, this is what I gleaned from some off-screen investigation.)
Finally! We escape to breathe the fair air of the outer world. With no oppressive stone ceiling above our heads, we feel that the world is ripe for the taking! We can do anything, maybe even find the fabled Inner Sanctum.
If there's one thing that Ultima III has taught me, it's that you must touch every glowing column. So, bravely, we all touch the column.
And are teleported... somewhere? Not knowing where we are, or what sort of foes we'll face, we are afraid. But, we trust in our badassery enough to march forward, dauntless, trying to find our way to the next
save point inn.
This... could go very bad. Sprites, with their curses, can make it so we can no longer effectively hit and gnomes' high magic resist, we could get really fucked over quite easily in this match.
When the monsters accept your bribe, they teleport you to a pre-determined square in the same 16x16 cell and take all your gold (but not gems).
We almost instantly face this group, giving us some renewed courage.
Easy peezy
Oh no! Here's someone we all know trying to derail this thread! We shall destroy him with righteous Codexian fury!
We've already regained our badass points we lost from running.
Down to just (((unknown Codexer)))
Our Russian priest destroys him with a well-deserved smack over the head.
His yelling about how illogically we have fought brought an avalanche.
After wandering for a while to escape, we find ourselves in a forest.
Oh, huh. Dunno how bad these will be, and I've got no jokes about these flamers.
Well, fuck.
Breath attacks? We are so screwed.
Well, shit. He was the one keeping us alive.
He goes down, puking in a pool of his own blood. Goodbye
Kalin, and may a flight of those eagle things from LotR fly thee to thy rest.
Azira, enraged at the death of his Codexer-in-arms, fires an arrow straight through the opponent's shell, killing it.
I've been backing us up with some light magical artillery, but now I'm out of SP.
We are so screwed.
After wounding the beetle, it performs a grievous act on our resident female.
At this point,you can see how this is gonna go.
What is this darkness before us?
Huh. So you can reload from an earlier save, but you can only save at inns. Works for me, I guess.
We go back out, and find the pillar again,
but decide to avoid it like the plague.
And here begins our next great adventure of grind.