"It's Dis!" The mermaid exclaimed.
"It's Dis," her spirit companion agreed amicably.
And so Wakasagihime's adventure in the depths of the dungeon continues. What adventures and terrors lay in store? There is no need for pause, the question is answered within moments.
"That's a really big lizard," Wakasagihime said.
"It's a serpent."
"A really big lizard serpent," she amends.
The demonic serpent let out a roar that blew miniature shards of metal at her, encrusting her slightly curled hair with bits of steel.
"That's not very nice," she frowned, picking off the metal bits whilst chanting in an ominous language with equal nonchalance. Towering giants of ice surrounded her, and charged at her enemy without a single finger lifted by her.
In mere moments. the chanting and roaring was replaced by low, helpless whines as the serpent of hell was beaten to dust by simulacra.
Unfortunately some things are simulacra proof, but Wakasagi trudges on.
Eventually Wakasagihime encounters a large and overbearing door. Everything about it seemed foreboding, as if calling for her to retreat. But the mermaid knew nothing about retreating. Not because she was particularly courageous, but because she was utterly oblivious to danger.
And so the door is pushed open...with expected results.
"A welcoming party!" She exclaimed.
"A murdering party," the spirit said unenthusiastically.
And as per usual, simulacra rose at her command, forming a giant barricade at the entrance.
No sooner had she done so however, did the lord of Dis emerge from the thick fog she had conjured.
"Thou who art dare to trespass, prepare to be crushed!" He roared, stabbing his scepter into the iron floors. An unpleasant quake emanated from the impact; proof that this lord of hell was no pushover...
...Except Dispater is not simulacra proof.
"This is a really nice staff," Wakasagihime comments, as the body of Dispater is buried in simulacra, leaving only his arm visible and a low, guttural screaming.
And of course, the expected.
Treasure, but little Wakasagihime saw fit to take.
"That was a good one," she yawned, "I'm glad bringing just one apple as my only source of permanent food didn't cause me to run out, forcing myself to rush back to the vestibule whilst dying from starvation, and being chased by a tormentor an-"
She stopped and blinked in confusion, as the spirit gave the most disturbed and angry look it could muster with its wisp-like features.
This never happened.Sometime later, Wakasagihime steps into the portal of Pandemonium, the last few places left to explore.
"We need to find the runes, you see," she explained to the spirit, "there are like...five? One demonic one, and four from the mighty lords of Pandemonium!"
It nodded slowly, "And, we have to train and clear the levels as we search, yes?"
"What are you saying? We're going straight for the Pandemonium lords!"
And there came one of the many loud groans that reverberated through the dungeon.
And so Wakasagihime dived through the halls of pandemonium, till she met with the aura of Lom Lobon, echoing the same emotion of disappointment and exasperation that came from her companion. Like a sweeping force of death and destruction she swept through the entire land, reducing most if not all the residing demons into a quivering pulp.
And then...
The cruel pandemonium lord Lom Lobon surveys the newcomer with his single eye. His words reverberated throughout his lair as he addressed her. An oppressive, overwhelming voice.
"Want some tea?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5PvBzDlZGs Appropriate music
The battle was a raging tide that swept between the two. Wakasagihime, with her seemingly endless torrent of glacial monsters, and the barrage of lightning and ice from Lom Lobon.
However, it was becoming clear; Wakasagihime will lose this fight. Her foe was too strong; bearing incredible magic that could reduce her minions to vapour within mere moments of chanting, whilst she herself was too weak to participate in the fight.
"Your time has come," Lom Lobon boomed, "Submit an-"
The mermaid was no longer seen, as the dome of crystal was filled with a choking curtain of multicoloured fog and smoke. When the pandemonium lord finally caught a glimpse of her green kimono, she was already standing by the very door he was guarding.
"Halt!" Lom Lobon roared, conjuring a fierce storm of raging winds to envelop his enemy, but it was too late. As if mocking him, the door was slammed shut in front of him. And as every dungeon dweller knows, not even the fearsome strength of a tornado could break the sturdy hinges of a door.
By the time Lom Lobon broke into the room housing his rune, Wakasagihime had already disappeared, leaving faint traces of translocational smoke in her wake. His forlorn groans could be heard even outside his lair.
There was little to do after. With some cajoling from her spirit that running around with 40 hp rotted and another 40 hp gone from frail 2 and thus ending with a grand total of 120hp was a bad idea, she chugged down some cure mutations and became just about mutation free. Thanks to having mistakenly misplaced her supplies, she also had to run around grabbing random scrolls and items, and a teleport ring that would serve her well in times of distress.
The last she saw her spirit companion had been quite a while, as he continued to dive through different regions of pandemonium; but it would be bakc, and hopefully she would have nothing but more success to show for it.
Miscellaneous notes:
Curse all of you scurvy laden dogs who walked around with zero supplies. Especially you Totaku. Going into hell with ONE. ONE apple. No don't tell me your gamble paid off, or that Kiku can feed Wakasagihime. That's just poor management of resources and you're going to start wondering why you're at 4 star piety and start ironically advising people to stop using Kiku's deliveries.
I managed to restock the heal wand, but the teleport wand is completely empty and recharge scrolls don't grow on trees.
I brought the ice staff along for those needed times of ozo cleansing, and a teleport ring for non emergency teleports (we only have three scrolls available). Also a bunch of useful evocables.
I picked up translocations for phase shift and controlled blink because both are incredibly useful and I don't know why you people never took it. Ice bros and corpse rot was dropped; they served well but no longer. If anyone desires to take up summons again you'll have to find some other spell to drop. Still waiting on Glaciate.
Scumming whilst looking for demonic rune is encouraged.
We're training stealth, translocations and throwing. I haven't shown it now, but I've brought some nifty nets for throwing on any of the lords but Cerebov. Good for delaying them whilst they get hammered on for simulacra. Stealth is good for running away, and better fog abuse. Once Cblink is usable, throwing is at 10 and the stealth manual i picked up is used up we can get to training something like polearms or other melee oriented skills; most of our magics are good enough at this point.
