The party agreed the best way to go would be down the tunnel where TRITHAL heard the water, so they ventured in that direction. Eventually they found themselves on a very long catwalk suspended from a ceiling too high to see, over a floor too deep to see the bottom of. AXEM, curious, pulls a quarter from his pocket and drops it over the side to see how long it takes to hit the ground. After several seconds of hearing nothing, TRITHAL turns around to say "It's quite deep, isn't it?", but accidentally melts one of the support cables with his orb of energy. The catwalk collapses and the party free-falls into the depths.
While they fall, THRAX says to TRITHAL "If this kills me, I'm kicking your ass!"
Like a smartass, TRITHAL responds "How would you do that if you were dead?"
On the way down, TRITHAL looks down then takes a diving posture and falls faster. The other three think he's gone nuts. Then an instant later TRITHAL dives smoothly into a deep pool of water. About a second and a half later, AXEM and CHRIS splash down like cannon balls, and THRAX takes a quite painful belly-flop.
But, he doesn't stay hurt for very long... for they soon realize they are swimming in the same water that was at the waterfall they were at just earlier that day. Their HP and SP completely restore again. While the four float in the water, they spot a mass of light just ahead and swim toward it. They climb ashore and find a pretty-good sized market about the same size as the inside of Woodland Hills Mall. A short, wrinkled guy with a long gray beard approaches them and says "Welcome to the Goblin Market... The best shopping there is in the Land of Fantasy!"
The party, soaking wet, looks around them, admiring how huge the place is, and all the various shops and stuff inside. TRITHAL looks behind him and says, "Hey look," The other three turn around and find the back-side of the waterfall that they were at earlier just a stone's throw away across the pool. Realizing how pointless the past day's journey was, they decide to shake it off and explore this huge marketplace.
The four find an inn at the corner of the market. They agree to meet there later, then split up and explore.
TRITHAL goes to an item shop and trades some of his supplies and old weapons for newer ones and some fresh scrolls.
THRAX goes to a pawn shop and sells off most of his belongings, then disappears into the direction of a red-light district.
AXEM invites CHRIS to accompany him to a tavern to sample the local booze. CHRIS says, "No thank you man, I don't do drinking games." After thinking to himself how deserving he is of his title, AXEM then goes into the tavern and meets some hot, young female elves. They engage in conversation.
CHRIS looks around the square and comes across a music store. He goes in and plays around with some of the instruments. After a while the shopkeeper gets annoyed with CHRIS's complete lack of musical talent, then throws him out.
TRITHAL, completing his business at the item shop, meets CHRIS outside. Together they find the FYE and go inside. TRITHAL finds some Anime DVDs that he doesn't already have, and CHRIS finds some hardly-known comedy movies which are barely funny, and a couple of action movies that contain one scene with a just a minuscule amount of humor, and buys them swearing that they're comedy movies. TRITHAL, with his superior money management skills, was able to buy all his Anime and a soda from the Coke cooler. CHRIS, who can't ever keep his cash straight, had to put one of his movies back since he didn't have enough money.
The two exit the FYE and make their way back toward the inn. On the way they come across AXEM, who appeared to had just been ejected from the tavern. CHRIS asks, "What happened?"
AXEM: "I was talking to some pointy-eared hotties, and when they started to feel me up, they sensed that venereal disease (which I still swear I don't know how I got), then all of a sudden, they looked at me like I was a diseased rat then used some kind of telekinesis to throw my ass on the street. I did manage to exchange phone numbers with one of them before-hand, though!"
TRITHAL: "Hey, wasn't there supposed to be a cure for that mysterious disease somewhere around here?"
AXEM then through up his finger and said, "Oooooh yeeeaaah! Let's go ask that old man."
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