Loki and Mystery try out the futuristic drink makers..
..however they are not familiar with future tech. They both accidentally summoned the oil Skeletron Prime uses to maintain himself...and drank it.
No more fooling around, time to get back to the mission. Mystery descends the stairs first, unsure of what he will find.
He isn't alone though. Blu and Loki are right behind him.
Cold, damp, and lit only by the torches on the walls.
Mould is growing on the stairs even. It is unknown just how far down they have climbed, some dungeons are known to penetrate the underworld itself.
Cenx is busy drinking instead of joining them :/
They wait for her, not at all comfortable.
Loki is unable to wait this long.
Ah, here she comes, finally.
"Mystery, your with me"
"You ready?" "Sure"
Oh come on you two, stop joking around
They enter the second chamber, it seems to be a small central hub.
"Mystery, wait! There might be a-"
*click* "-trap"
"I hate you"
Whoah!
The sound of Mystery screaming and the crackle of electricity is a convenient warning for Loki and Blu.
He sneaks in, determined to not meet the same fate
As an investigator, he has a keen eye for these things. He finds a trap..
"Hmm, a fire trap. Symmetrical placement, unsurprising."
Mystery is finally released from the lightning, charred, but alive. He runs to the safety of the door to catch his breath.
The fire trap is revealed for all to see and avoid. Good work, Loki.
I dont think he's too happy with Cenx right now
Cenx assumes all the traps are disarmed, and heads to the mirror, unmindful of where she is stepping.
*click* *whiiiiir*"Cenx, what have you done!"
*clickclick* "Crap, multiple traps are going off!"
Darts fly out of the wall and the floor, stabbing all three repeatedly, not unlike ridiculously giant bees.
Mystery is enjoying this WAY too much.
Blu dodged the first salvo, but not the second.
Well, they werent just sharp darts, they were poisoned too.
Loki and Blu were oddly unaffected by the poison.
"Guys, the mirror reveals all the traps in the room with a glow. Too bad you set them all off already"
"Great, a golden chest behind hellstone. Who put hellstone here!?" "Its to guard the chest" "I knew that!"
He prepares himself..
"Here goes nothing!"
"OUCH, too hot! I cant do it!"
The look in his eyes
The burning of his tortured soles..
His heart is racing.
"Oh great, I walked into a monster's toilet."
"This is a bedroom, looks like a wizard lives here"
Oho, Loki's thinking of the lost girl eh?
Mystery is glad to see a bathroom though.
He turns on the shower to clean off the soot and change into unsinged clothes "Are you REALLY going to watch me shower?" Not at all. Some things are better left a...mystery..
Cenx opens the wizard's wardrobe...and finds a magical portal inside!
She is sucked inside before she can react
"Of COURSE its destroyed!"
For the rest of this adventure, he'll be in his formalwear, seeing as his standard clothes were incinerated
Loki walks into one of the remaining rooms..
..and doesnt seem to be alone
He sneaks over to the wizard..
Busted.
"You, freeze!"
Quite literally
Heh. The wizard teleports away.
"Well, this is awkward, this is the bedroom of the werewolf I owned.."
Blu tries what Loki could not do.
"And this is why they are as strong as they are. Wandered into their workout room.."
Success! She is..the Sole Survivor
Blu gets the treasure, a pile of gold and gems
Now to get back across
"Ha, beat that Loki!" He cant reply though.
Cenx returns from her cross-dimensional adventure (detailed in the next post)
The initial effects of the Ice Blast spell wear off..
But now he has the aftereffects to deal with.
Nice earrings!
Down to the next level.
"Now that statuue isnt unnerving at all" "Is that fog coming from it?" "..yep"
He invades the vampire's bedroom.
Its like he knows exactly who lives here.
Mystery invades another bedroom.
This one seems highly...themed.
Uh oh. He's in deep
.
Never disturb the rest of the undead.
Cenx and Blu are examining some of the art on the walls. Not bad.
Ah, the vampire from before..
Loki has a visitor..
Mystery valiantly tries to fight off the mummy...but mummies are extremely strong, and gifted in martial arts..
"Ah, hello there.." The vampire speaks to Cenx..
Cenx suddenly cant stop thinking about him.
Something tells me dark magic is afoot here.
He reads her mind to discover all the things she likes..
Loki is on the receiving end of another spell.
"You again!"
Oh my. Loki is now afflicted with toadification.
Cenx is lost in mind control, complimenting his wonderful house
Tim did not expect Loki to still have his fighting ability as a toad
Scrawny wizard versus toadman!
I cant take this seriously.
Mystery quickly loses his battle, and is now getting savagely beaten.
Well, this looks like it will hurt.
And then there were two
Vampire's are known for their charming power.
Blu will save him! Not before he got his
handed to him though.
Well, this looks bad.
"Allow me to present you with a gift
" This wasnt in his plan..
Mystery is out of there to sit down and recover a bit. Healing potion too.
"What is this?"
"It will bring out your inner beauty
"
"I feel my skin reacting.."
"ARGH, IT BURNS, ITS SHIFTING!" "Thought you had me under your spell did you?"
Blu engages the mummy, and even she is very hard pressed in combat. This guy is probably the strongest of all of them.
Every moment is a fight for her life.
"Loki, what the hell, can you stop getting cursed every few minutes?"
BAHAHAHAHAHA! She mutated his face. He attacks in a rage.
It looks even better on him since hes a vampire.
Such fury!
Epic pose.
Vampires are, like mummies, extremely strong. Hence her trickery to weaken him.
His blind rage makes him extremely predictable.
And then, a roundhouse kick that he fails to dodge. Right to the skull!
And then there was one. She worries she may have kicked him TOO hard. That CRRRRAAAAACK was rather..extreme
Blu's battle rages, until..
She strikes him at the heart..
...which brings him down. Thats all of the residents defeated. Now its just them and Liko..
"Loki, what the HELL?"
"I, er, need to be kissed for this to be broken." "Dude, not watching!" Cenx is highly amused, Blu grossed out.
However, Blu is the only one willing to do it.
"I hope nobody takes a picture of this and makes me see it.."
It wasnt just bull
from Loki to get a kiss! He transforms back to his normal form. Note that I set up a screenshot of the transformation back, but forgot to push C to take the picture..so you just have to imagine it
Down to the final level..
The last level is accessed via two L-shaped staircases, rather than the big stone ones used so far. Rumours exist of a fourth incompleted dungeon level..
Certainly more spacious down here!
Liko hears them..
"Hmm, this would have belonged to that mummy.."
Blu fistpumps over the extensive wine collection down here
Mystery and Cenx join them.
"I could shatter this thing with my bare hand!" Stay on task Loki >_>
Mystery goes down one of the doors, while Blu heads for the other
She cannot get it open, shes not strong enough.
"This door is completely blocked, theres rubble behind it!" "If Liko is behind there, we are screwed.." (This leads to the dungeon area I never finished)
Mystery walks past some odd artwork on the walls of the hallway.
Seems hes invading another room.
"This must be where the Nymph lives..all the way at the bottom, isolated from the others."
They just chill out and look at paintings and stuff while waiting for him.
"You know, I expected this to be empty.." How rude
"Oh...her bathroom"
"HAHAHA, I'll lokibomb it!"
Oh dear god, he actually did
Well, hes certainly happy about it
At least hes washing his hands afterwards (gloves actually)
Going through the other door.."Oh wow, seems that Nymph is quite the artist.."
"At least, her calmer form is. You'd never guess. Now I know why this place is well decorated."
"Aha! Dungeon blueprints! I know where Liko will be!"
"Whats taking him so long?"
"Well, that was the Nymphs room" "Why did you take so long" "...reasons"
"...anyway, I found that there is a hidden passage right here"
"See?" "Very good Mystery!"
"Need any help? "No..I...think...I...have it!"
"ALMOST........DONE" "Dont overexert yourself"
"THERE!"
Come along girls, stop chatting.
Mystery goes right through the little room at the end of that hallway an though the other door without even looking around.
Loki however, suspects things
Blu finds a secret passage on the wall and gets it open rather quickly
Is she heading outdoors!?
Nope. Fake wall. There is a creepy doll on the floor, emitting a weird mist..
And a skeleton on the other side of the room, facing away from the doll...
*SLAM* *click*
"I cant beleive I just got trapped in here!"
Mystery is meandering in the hallway waiting for the others
So he looks around for secret walls.
Loki is convinced this room is a four-door crossroad
Cenx waits outside while Loki does his magic, and talks to the Mechanic about the traps and doors for pointers
Both of them were correct.
"Cenx, the doors being opened" "Nice, I'll check it out in a bit!"
Mystery struggles with another door..
Blu is trapped, and nobody can hear her. Shes getting awfully sleepy..
Loki's got the wall sorted.
"ARE YOU
ING KIDDING ME?" All there is, is a painting of grilled cheese. Nothing else
"Cenx, Mystery's yelling about something, im going to go check on him" "Alright, I'll be fine. I'll yell if I see Liko!"
She walks into the room at the end of the hallway..
"
! The wall just slammed shut on its own! Cenx is trapped..but Mystery also needs me. I dont think these walls will reopen easily."
Cenx is drawn to the mirror
Staring at herself and cracking up..
Then it goes dark..
What is this, Snow White?
"Well well, arent YOU in trouble."
The room is filled with urns, a skeleton, and some magical jellybean plants...the urns all depict death by starvation...or death by toxic jellybean...
Blu is sleeping on her feet..
"Sorry for misleading you, we need to find Liko and rescue Blu and Cenx somehow" "Indeed, for now lets keep moving. You have point for now"
He walks into the room, noticing a skeleton covered in ash..
"Thats unsettling.." *click*
"Oh for..another trap? Hang on Mystery, I'll try to get it open!"
"Nothings happening in here though.."
There is no scream. There is no noise.
"Got it open...what the hell?"
"Mystery?"
"A door in the wall, already opened, I need to investigate this. I feel like something horrible happened to Mystery but...I must keep going"
Unsettling..
"Loki.."
"Liko! Where is Mystery!" "I dont need to answer that. "
"What is this device?" "A gate that crosses the dimensions of time and space. If you want to..deal with me...you will follow me. Hmhmhmhm.."
"If you wish to save the lives of your companions, no, all in this very town, you WILL follow."
"Damn it!" "See you soon!"
As the device spins, Liko disappears in a flash of light, leaving the device...empty.
"Well, here goes nothing.."
"I alone can do this, the others..are all gone."
"I must find him, and put an end to this!"
"Wait, am I pushing the right buttons?"
"WHOAH!'
"IDONTTHINKIDIDTHISRIGHT"
"DEFINITELYNOT!"
<SYSTEMERROR!>
"Ouch, that was not fun.."
"I have to try again."
"This time for sure!"
He disappears in a flash of light...
TO BE CONTINUED