if staff fails then pour all your magic mojo into the orb and make it fire a green laser or something.

make like your staff is a baseball bat.

Starit 2011/10/19(Wed)08:10 No. 359394 ID: f5e4b4
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I’ll try to swing the staff and stab the creature in the eye with the sharp beak!

SNAP

...Damn, that thing is fast. What do I do now!?

jam staff forward the end is pointy now. if that fails then GREEN LASER!

"aww dude come on, that stick was fucking ace as shit. Dammit, just let me go forward, I don't care about you and your fellows doing your thing. GO AND DO YOUR THING, I can go left while you go right I'm just looking for a way outta here plus one decent artifact or two! That's it, we don't need to fucking fight man what is your problem."

save the green laser for now. stab it in the eye.

Starit 2011/10/20(Thu)13:21 No. 359647 ID: f5e4b4
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IIIIIAARGGHHHH!

I pushed the broken staff into the creature’s eye! It’s blinded now, shrieking in pain, flailing about and screaming horribly. Spurts of its corrosive saliva are flying in all directions.

Alright brah dodge and run to the other room, maybe even do a role! Gonna have to try and get away from all the acid, cover your head while keeping it low and stuff!

go around it by getting against the wall with the picture.

put the bag over your head and run past it

>>359647
Throw your bitchin' wand stick to the left side of the room to distract him, then go round him to the right.

too bad you don't have a sword, it would be the ideal time to chop off his head at his skinny neck...

yeah, dash past it.

Starit 2011/10/23(Sun)03:23 No. 360191 ID: f5e4b4
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I manage to slip into the next room backing up against the wall. But this new room isn’t looking any better

Looks like they’ve introduced the golden gear in a hole in the wall. The walls vibrate with the sound of a huge clockwork mechanism. But what’s worse... there’s some freaky shadow creeping in from a hole in the wall! It’s practically blocking the way, and I don’t think I should let it touch me!

fire green laser at shadow! if that doesn't work then just hold it out and use the orb to stop shadows from touching you, it is glowing.

ask it politely to leave you alone

Hurry along the wall, staying as far away from that exposed corner as possible.

Hop around like a motherfucker

maybe the orb will repel it.

Starit 2011/10/25(Tue)04:38 No. 360941 ID: f5e4b4
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I don’t know where did that idea of the orb shooting lasers come from but I don’t--

ZWOOM!

Whoa! D-did you see that!? When I pulled it out and focused on it... well, it didn’t shoot a beam, or anything, but this kind of... shield appeared. It looks like the shadows are retreating from it!

Move yer butt!

don't waste time who knows how long it will last, to the next room.

taunt it a little and pace up to it a bit first hehe

the one who gave you the orb said it'd have a price, so don't toy with the orb. it's probably slowly eating your soul or making you sterile or something. so, uh, hurry.

Starit 2011/10/28(Fri)16:06 No. 361835 ID: f5e4b4
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Yeah, the shield seems to be flickering, I better hurry up to the next room.

The hell... This isn’t getting any better. The floor in this room is partially collapsed, but there’s like a metallic tower in the center, and going through the ceiling. The door is open, and in front of it is other one of those creeps, growling menacingly, with the golden staff in its hand.

The last creature is growling and screaming desperately: one of those shadow hands has grabbed him and is pulling him down into the dark pit. And more of those smoke-hands are coming up, this doesn’t look good.

turn the shield off and get as close as you can, then right before a hand grabs you turn it back on. if the hand is in the radius of the shield it may get destroyed.

attempt to free the creature with the last of the shielding ! it's got to earn you some points

>>361836

too risky.

>>361837

this. obviously monsters don't have to be dicks.

Starit 2011/10/30(Sun)08:58 No. 362300 ID: f5e4b4
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Alright, I lunge forward and try to touch one of those hands with the shield, but the recoil back as soon as they notice my presence. The one grabbing the creature drags him down into the darkness. I don’t think I can do much for him. Actually, I think I should worry about myself, the shield is almost gone!

the other creature is holding out the rod, grab it!

and then dive into the door.

get to the hellevator !

Grab rod, escape into... whatever this is.

Grab the Rod. It's vital to whatever these damned souls planned, and it's obviously more important to them than life itself. Take it and get into the dark chamber.

Another vote for rod + door.

and hurry the fuck up.

Starit 2011/10/31(Mon)12:17 No. 362709 ID: f5e4b4
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Oh gods, they’re everywhere! I grab the golden rod just a second before the hands drag the other creature into the abyss and I dart inside the tower, or whatever it is.

The door leads to a tall ladder, that ends up in a small room, with a chair and some kind of control panel. It looks a bit like the ones the flying ships have, but this one doesn’t make any sense! It has a lot of glowing bulbs of different colors an unlabeled switches.

does the rod fit in that empty lever slot thing? if not then i bet it drops into the funnel. if it does fir then make it attach and pull it up or down.

press all the buttons pull all the levers turn all the dials flip all the switches

>>362710
try to do this and put your orb over where that funnel is.

Maybe the golden rod is a handle that forms a lever when combined with the vertical disc in the lower right?

>>362733
That's what I'm thinking as well.

insert that firm rod into that tight slit over there.

Starit 2011/11/01(Tue)13:44 No. 363025 ID: f5e4b4
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Yes! The rod fits in the slot, like a lever. I’m just gonna pull it and

The entire structure starts buzzing and shaking,

AAaaaaaah! What is haaaappening?

Starit 2011/11/01(Tue)13:45 No. 363026 ID: f5e4b4
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BAUM!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Starit 2011/11/01(Tue)13:47 No. 363028 ID: f5e4b4
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“...Hmmm... It’s been like, twelve hours already?”

“Yeah, more or less. I think we can consider that young Pherguson failed the tes--”

Starit 2011/11/01(Tue)13:47 No. 363029 ID: f5e4b4
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CRASH!


“WHAT THE...!?

Starit 2011/11/01(Tue)13:48 No. 363030 ID: f5e4b4
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“...There seems to be a door here... Hey, isn’t this unconscious fellow our young student, Mr. Pherguson?”

“Indeed he is!... And he’s even alive!”

“Well, I guess this counts very well as a valuable artifact, so he passed the test!”

“Marvelous... Now I think we should take him to the infirmary, I’m not a man of medicine but I don’t think that the arms of a healthy man should be able to bend that far behind his own back.”

pretty SHORT chapter

>>363077
Compact, you mean.