I am disgusted with myself. But first things first.
I descended into the liar of Count Dracula himself and could not help but feel a horrific chill go down my spine as I felt the ghosts of my ancestors bewailing that place. The bats that plagued the area bit hard and released a toxin in my bloodstream that made me groggy and run sideways and stumbbling for a few seconds. There were dark and shadowy wolves that barely scratched me but left wounds that bled profusely for a few seconds before they closed up. I fought my way to Dracula who transformed into swarms of bats but just floated there if I stood outside the room that he was in instead of pursuing me. Okay. Learning this, the boss fell quickly and yielded a pretty white bag with a pretty white-bound book. As hard as I tried, I couldn't understand the cryptic words in the book. I would have to try later at home with my nifty robe on.
Dragons of all colors! (Are they dragons of the rainbow?) These creatures were as fierce as the stories made them out to be and I could not help but stand in the back lines, only occasionally poking in and slashing the dragons a few times. What I found especially interesting is that my natural leadership skills endowed by my helmet allowed me to stand in the back lines and shout random battlecries which strengthened them to charge forward in a frenzy and attack the dragons. With much shouting gibberish, the dragons fell by the might of my small army, one of which dropped a spiffy blue cloth from a dragon hide that I prompted wore. I felt a bit mismatched, wearing a jesters hat and dragon skin but it would have to do.
Now to why I feel disgusted. I had already learned that these little vials were meant to be drunk no matter how weird it looked when I came across a familiar dark yellow liquid. It was urine. It stank. And I drank it. And I threw up a bit in my mouth. That's all I will say about that.
I did come across one final potion that I had never tried from one of the golden chests in the dragon liar. It had the color of the sky about it, though it was smelled so nasty that I couldn't even think about drinking it. I vowed that I would never drink this last potion, though people told me that it would give me more health. I would rather die sooner than drink that.
And finally. I was fighting the dreaded Oryx himself in his castle and had slain him yet again. He wailed that he would return, though I knew that if I went home he would miraculously respawn yet again. He always left behind a locked door as he fled and I could never figure out how to open it. In one of these raids, (since I just like slaying him so much, that jerk.), one of my companions pulled out a familiar item. It was that shiny emblem that I had found earlier! He put it into the keyhole of the door and it opened!
It was a wine cellar and things clicked in my mind.
This was why this world made no sense. Oryx must have been more often than not drunk out of his mind when he put things in order, leaving vials of urine to.... nevermind, not talking about that. I rushed forward to slay his drunken fool self, though I found that when drunk, he was far more powerful than I had ever faced. He shot out a rain of shots in concentrated arcs that were devastating and spawned endless minions that were hard to put down. Luckily, my companions took to the fight with me and together we brought him down. And the bag that followed delighted me.
It was a sword bestowed by the gods and not for demons, but for humankind. The hallowed weight echoed in my hands... and I knew this would FINALLY be the end of people whispering "ppe? ppe? ppe? ppe?" in my ears as I walked by...
This post was edited by so13eit on Jan 6 2015 12:45am