Stage 1 - The Massholes!

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🧌 CHARLESTON CHOO-CHOO
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The trident strikes hard and true! The bubble magic works as expected! The giant troll floats upward!!!

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"Gabsida!" Gong-Ju says triumphantly. She dashes forward and slides under the floating troll, entering the tunnel!

As you dash into the tunnel, you hear the troll yelling, "YOU’VE NOT SEEN THE LAST OF CHARLESTON CHOO-CHOO!"The tunnel is pitch black, with lights on either end. Your footfalls echo along the walls and ceiling around you. Should you speak, your voices will sound like distant echos as if spoken by the lights at both ends of the tunnel rather than through your lips. Somehow, despite the strangeness, it feels safe in here… like an unvoiced guarantee: it will just be the four of you, undisturbed, until you step through the light.

Lacey rejects the caressing sense of safety with a snort. A dark tunnel with strange echos? No way were they lingering here, no matter how cozy it felt.

"Let's keep up the pace and reach the other side. This feels...off...."

She pulls a large candle from her purse. Specifically, a Blue Candle. It can illuminate the area, and also spit out fire if needed.Did she have to seduce someone to acquire this? No, actually...she found it on the desiccated corpse of an adventurer. It's not stealing if the person's dead.

Gemini flies alongside the group, though she flies backward. She has her board resting in her lap, and a pensive expression on her face. Once again she's glad of a conflict that can be resolved without violence, but there's a pattern starting to emerge. The trouble is, she can't always disagree with the option her comrades take, even if she won't participate every time.

She's abnormally quiet as they go.

You exit the tunnel.


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MONSTERLAND’S JUNGLE ROAD

Outside the tunnel is a jungle with a pinkish-purplish sky somewhat obscured by a lush green canopy. Dangling vines sway gently, presumably from a light wind.

The trees here are surely ancient, as if this part of the world was untouched by Man and War. The temperature is warm and inviting. Pink flowers are in full bloom on either side of the footpath leading away from the tunnel, and presumably, toward The Maiden.

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As you follow the path—The Mother assuring you her daughter is not only ahead, but somehow, unscathed—there seems to be no one around. Of course, you expect an ambush.

You even might expect that the bushes are the #1 hiding place for ambushes.

But in this case, it is the bushes!

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🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 DAMNBUSH
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Greedy tendrils reach out to grab Gong-Ju and Lacey!Thorns shoot out at Gemini and Murasaki!

"Eek! Unhand me, vile shrubbery!" Gong-Ju shouts. She tries to block the tendrils before jabbing back at them!

Murasaki's quick to leap into action! But not quick enough to avoid the thorns!

"Nh...!" The thorns punched into her gi, digging into her flesh. However, she soldiers through the pain to rush in front of Gong-Ju and deflect the tendril's grabbing attempt with a swift kick.

Lacey tries to scamper away from the aggressive bush, while also using the Blue Candle's fire-spewing ability.

Surely the flames would burn it to a crisp...unless it was magical...or wetter than normal, and therefore less conducive to fire...or...well, best not to think too hard about it! Just hope for the best!

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🌳🌳🌳 DAMNBUSH
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Gong-Ju hacks away at the plants as Murasaki gets riddled with thorns fending off the tendrils! Lacey’s candle gets the tendril to back off, but without singeing a single leaf. It seems the bush is both magical and wet.
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🌳🌳🌳 DAMNBUSH
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While Lacey, Murasaki and Gemini use defensive techniques to make sure nobody gets hurt, Gong-Ju takes out two of the damnbushes! They burst into poofs of pollen!

The three remaining plants turn to the wingless heroines. They each toss a pinecone grenade!

Lacey dives away from the grenades...or more like stumbles, since being super-athletic in high heels and a dress isn't that easy.

As she moves, she rips a portion of her dress, by her right thigh. Oh well. It could be patched later....

Gong-Ju bunts the grenade but struggles to land a hit.

So the bushes can burn! Lacey tries using the Blue Candle again, to intensify the flames!

Her third eye glinting, Murasaki front flips high into the air to dodge the grenades! As she reaches the apex of her jump, she shoots down at the damnbushes as if rocket-propelled, her foot outstretched and glowing with purple flames!

"Jal meokkketsseumnida," Gong-Ju says, giving thanks for the meal before picking up the warm apple and scarfing it down!