Memorial Day Weekend really took it toll on me. Because of that, I have been unable to really work on this report till now. My apaologize to everyone for the big delay. orz
But without further ado, let me continue Wakasagihime's adventure!
When we last left off the adventure, Wakasagihime has just finshed clearing out Floor 6 of the dangerous Lair of Beasts! She felt as if things would only get worse the deeper she went. And with some of her more valuable supplies being exhausted.... would she be able to survive the test of time as she battled against the odds that would come against her? So she decided to take the stairs and continue on her way down...
Lair Floor 7: The Ghostly Encounter
As Wakasagihime made her down to next floor things were running smoothly, but that all came to a short end real fast. As she encountered a ghostly figure that came before her....
The ghost had noted appearance that looked simlar to that of a Hell Raven. The Hell Ghost turned and Wakasagihime and pointed to her she unto her.
".....how dare try to.....venture into these dungeons..... to seek what I....was after....I shall burn you.... alive and you.... shall walk.... with among.... the dead...for eternity!"
The ghostly raven would begin flinging balls of fire at the mermaid and she attempted to summon her ice bros to protect her from the raven's onslaught. However the ice bros would prove to now be effeivent at protecting as the fireballs would melt the icebros into water before Wakasagihime. None the less she continue to summon them and make sure the stayed in front of her as she jabbed her bradrich at the ghost. Her gamble would eventually pay off as she managed to strike down from a distance.
The ghostly hell raven let out a wail as she disappeared into nothingness...
"Whew! What kind of spirit was that?" The mermaid questioned herself. "I had no idea that they were filled with anger down here."
Needless to say... the mermaid to ponder on this matter as a poisonous frog leaped torwards Wakasagihime.
While poisonous frogs are nothing too new for the mermaid this one however was very resilient and was determined to make her life miserable.
Even though the Mermaid was victorious against the frog... The frog managed to severely poison Wakasaghime. And as a result: she was losing her strength rapidly and was on the verge of dying.
"Nooo!!!! It can't end like this!!!" the Mermaid screamed as the poison ran through her system.
"I must treat this immediately!"
Wakasagihime took out her wand of healing and attempted to heal herself... but when she tried the wand fizzled out and became useless!
"NOO!!!" The mermaid screamed as she was continuing to suffer the effects of the poison.
"I don't have a choice! It's either I drink this potion of curing, or I die here!"
She quickly gulped down her last potion of curing. Which removed the poison from her body.
"I need to be careful," the mermaid said cautiously. "If I get into a situation like this again, I will have no to survive it, I can't let myself get poisoned that badly again."
Thankfully almost everything about floor 7 of the Lair presented no threat to Waksagihime thanks to the power of her icicles and ice bros that could protect her.
But there was one odd thing on that floor.
As she passed by a flight of said going up, she ignored them until she heard a snarl come from the stairs. As she turned to look at the stairs she noticed the stairs had open it mouth and attempted to try to bite the mermaid.
"Whao!" The mermaid jumped back before the stiars could clamp it's jaws onto her tender flesh. "The stairs are alive?! How can this be?!!"
It was a stair mimic. Unlike inept mimics, regular mimics are much harder and have a tendency to poison you when they bite you.
So as usual, Wakasagihime deicded to freeze the stiars as she pleted it with Icicles and let her Ice Bros do the job of biting the stiars back. Before she knew it, the stair mimic crumbled away to nothingness!
"Whew, I never knew that things could bite back in here. I need to keep moving!."
And thus the mermaid princess ventured down a flight of stairs as she entered the final floor of the Lair...
Lair Floor 8: Pachyderms and Catobleps
Just as the mermaid entered into the final floor, she was faced with something that never expected to find down here..
ELEPHANTS!!!
Elephants are relatively dangerous in crawl because they much like yaks except they come in larger numbers and have a tendency to trample you and knock you back a square when hit you. This can be very bad if you are trying to get away from them while climbing stairs.
"This is just rediculous! I need to get out of here!" And so Wakasagihime ran up stairs before the elephant heard could get her and decided to return down another flight of stairs.
(I'm am sorry, I forgot that Wakasagihime could have jumped in the water to save herself
So as she continued down in the final floor, she attempted to fight through many obsticals which included snakes, Sukusuku Hakutakus and so forth. She did manage to find the Slime Pits.
Note: The Slime Pits is a very difficult branch that I would not recommend going into for quite a while. As you will suffer from corrosion in all shapes and forms. Get a resist corrosion amulet can help. But consider going there only after you've explored most of the dungeon and the depths.
Eventually Wakasagihime managed to find a stray Elephant from the herd which she managed to kill without issue and it left it's corpse behind.
"This looks like a wonderful opprotunity to try my new magic the mermaid cheered with happiness."
She mermaid casted the spells to make elephants skeleton come to life leaving it's flesh on the floor.
"Now I need to gather the flesh up and try this out."
She gathers the elephant flesh and hold in her hand as shes a cast a spell on the flesh...
Soon the flesh took on the frozen icy form simlar that of an elephant. She managed to make several icy clones of the same elephant with this!
"I think I just managed to perfect Ice Bros. V.2.0!! This will be exciting!" The mermaid cheered!
And thus Wakasagihime now only could now animate skeletons but also create icy zombiefied copies of the creature she killed as long as she had a chunk of its flesh she could use to create it.
So with her new found ice bros she was able to slaughter the elephants without the Lair with little difficulty except when she reached a whole different area.
The area was filled with statues which was odd considering the lair was mainly filled with trees, plants and grass. But it wouldn't take long for the mermaid to find out that this place was not made by normal means...
A Catobleps was responsible for this!
Catobleps are bull like creatures that are capable of breathing out petrifying fumes that can cause anything that is caught in it to turn into stone.
As expected the bull would turn some of the ice creatures and skeletons into stone very easily. But what it could turn into stone, it still could not fight the sheer numbers that were against him. And thus the bull fell with ease.
Wakasagihime decided that before she continue further within she would explore the rest of the place first.
Most of it was uneventful since she was able to gain the upper hand easily with her undead helpers.
But she did find another spell book.
Heading inside the petrified area she came across a batch of Sukusuku Hakutakus which proved to be a bit of a challenge since they came in regular and death flavor. She was force to tepeport out of there, but later came back after recovering to finish them off using her icicles and Ice Bros 2.0.
Eventually she fought one more Cataboleps and beat it down and finally came to the end of the Lair where she found her prizes.
Some gold and two special rare spell books!
One of the spell books focused on poisons I think, but other one was important.
The Inmaculburam of Tailsmans and Feathers.
This one has one impotant spell worth learning in the long run: Haste!
Haste is a good spell to have in the long run because it'll allow you to escape from serious trouble. Just abuse the spell too much or you'll suffer dire consequences from it.
So with that Wakasagihime took leave from the Lair and returned to her stash pile.
"Now that I have dealt with the Lair, I can now go and organize my collect of things I found!"
she hums a certain copyrighted song about whatchamacallits and doohickies and being "part of that world." as she fixes her stash.
"There we go!" The mermaid said with cheerfulness, "I can now see everything clearly without having to dig around in one spot."
Wakasaghime thinks about her situation.
"So at this point, I can go venture into the shoals, but it be dangerous there so I'm unsure... and the snake pits is asking me simply to die there which I refuse to do right now.... so the only option I have is to simply go back to the dungeon and hopfully I will find something that will help me."
And so Wakasagihime took what belongs she through she would need and returned to the dungeon of ZUN once more...
Upon arriving there she descended deeper into the dungeon...
Dungeon of ZUN - Floor 10: Winter is Back in Full Force
Wakasagihime took a moment to read through the book of power to understand Fuliment Prism since it would likely come to use later on.
As Wakasagihime traveled deeper into the Dungeon of ZUN she noticed stange things afoot.
The first thing she noticed was a trail of cherry blossom in the dungeon.
" I never knew spring time could happen indoor?" Yet as she continued to look around the situation grew worse.
First it was sharks and bees.
Bees are annoying and dangerous because are fast and they can poison you with thier stings. Sharks are simply really strong fish, nothing too difficult about them.
She used the assistance of ice bros and icicles to help her out of this situations. But before she could relax, she saw two unsual beings before her...
Elrocha and Letty Whiterock
Elrocha is an ogre mage who knows some pretty powerful spells that include fireball, invisibilty and mystic blast, plus she can hit hard to boot!
Letty on the other hand is obvious, being the Embodiment of Winter, she has ice elemental attacks written all over her.
Only Elrocha took notice of the mermaid as she charged at her.
Wakasagihime attempted to try to fight her, but it proved to be harder than expected. Because she turned herself invisible before the Ice Bros could hit her thus they couldn't find her. This resulted in ther mermaid forcing to retreat a few times, before she was eventually successfully took down the ogre.
She continue the exploe the dungeon as she came across two rings which she gathered and put on. But she couldn't tell what they were and couldn't identify them either.
Unsure, she continued onward till she confronted a troll!
Trolls are ugly hairy brutes who will rip and tear you while healing at a fast rate. You need to him them hard and fast in order to win.
Thankfully the wonders of Ice bros 2.0 does wonders and the troll died quicly leaving it's body.
Wakasagihime took the body and butchered it and it left it's hide intact. Wakasagihime had a scroll of enchant armor on her and used it on the hide.
The hide would transform into a Troll Leather Armor.
Troll leather armor has the properties of leather armor but at the same time can also make your health regenerate slightly faster under normal means.
She also encounter Wyvern which are just really fast dragons that only bite. Nothing too dangerous with ice bros.
But then she ran into Letty....
"So the lakes haven't frozen over yet in this dungeon and before my eyes I see what looks like a mermaid before me?"
Wakasaghime looks at the yuki-onna with a complex look.
"We're you expecting me to stay under water for the whole winter season? I had important things to do then stay in the water. Just what are you doing down here? Shouldn't you be hiding away in someplace cold till the winter returns?"
Letty laughs at the mermaid's question.
"Silly fish, do you think I would miss such a wonderful opportunity to come to this dungeon to seek out the beer to be able to allow winter a little longer? I think not."
"So we both have the same goal in mind?"
"Of course,"the Yuki-onna laugh, but only one can earn the wish and I will make it'll be me."
Letty readies her ice magic...
"I am Letty Whiterock, Yuki-Onna of the Winter Season! If fish like you won't stay under the water, then perhaps I should
preserver your body under ice for the next meal!
"Go ahead and try!"The mermaid said with confidence, "I think we all know that rules of Gensokyo don't apply here."
Letty attempted to try to freeze Wakasagihime, but something prevented this...
"What's going on here?" Letty questioned, "You should of been frozen by now!"
Wakasagihime realized one of her rings prevented her from being frozen solid. "So... this ring just save me!" the mermaid said with surprise.
"It doesn't matter," the yuki-onna scowled " I shall tear you apart!"
Wakasagihime fled to a more open area.
And summoned her ice bros, her ice bros 2.0s and prepared her bradrich to attack Letty from the distances.
Letty was unable to fight back properly because she was stuck at a chock point and was torn apart by Wakasagihime's Bradrich and the jaws of the ice bros.
"NOOOOOOO"
Letty screamed as she fell to the might of the ice bros and Wagasagihime.
"I'm sorry, but winter's canceled for the dungeon!"
"So.... what are you going to do now....." Letty said as she stuggled to breath
"I think you might be of some to me." said the mermaid with a cheerful smile. "You're on the verge of death so I will be able to make use of you real quickly.
With a wave of her hand, Wakasagihime casted a spell on Letty.
Just then, the skeleton that made up Letty's body bursted out of her dying corpse leaving behind a mound of flesh in which Wakasagihime picked.
"There you go! Now you can help me as I travel further in the dungeon."
Wakasagihime read through the scroll of identify she found on the floor and identified one of her rings.
It was the ring of poison resistance!
"All right!" Wakasagihime said with a cheer, now I can be protected from the poison! But should I really go back now?"
At this point Wakasagihime was unsure what to do so she took a brake for a short bit....
And that ends my turn....
Here's an important note for you all:
1. We still do not have any potions of curing and our wands of healing are used up. So we are limited on what can do.
2. Consider training conjuration since I learned Fuliment prism for that purpose.
3. We got a ring of poison resistance! We can be protect from poison somewhat, but remember, it's not 100% garunteed.
4. If we go deeper we might find the orc mines, which might be important for getting the a shop that contains potions or scrolls of recharging. We REALLY NEED THESE!
5. One mistake could end it for us if we get Wakasagihime too poisoned. So use caution.
6. That stair case over there seem supicious... it might be a mimic. A very badly disguised one. lololol
That's about it.
We are currently at turn 27740
I will be signing up again!
File is the bottom as usual Raitaki.
Sorry I haven't had time to work on the mod thanks to Memorial Day Family gatherings. I will try to make up for this soon.
- Totaku
