2018-09-15: Bream Brute Buffet
- Log: Bream Brute Buffet
- Cast: Zed, Xantia, Dean Stark, Chime Isa
- Where: Gunsmoke Desert
- Date: September 15, 2018
- Summary: Adventure is set to begin, but not the one they thought it would be!
================================<* +CAMP - *>================================ =====================<* Chime Isa - ARMs Meister Chime *>===================== Brute: 4 Agility: 7 Wits: 8 Combat: 4 Exhaustion: 0/100 =================================<* Tools *>================================== Available Tool Slots: 2 1 Path Maker 4 Brute Limit: 2/2 Effects: Liability, Efficient, Embolden 2 Cure-Alls 1 Wits Limit: 4/4 Effects: Cleanse Basic Actions: Force, Investigate, Rush, Fight. Zed Brute: 5 Agility: 5 Wits: 1 Combat: 8 Exhaustion: 0/100 Tools: Grapple Scarf, Berserk Hammer, Jotunn Heart. Dean Stark Brute: 7 Agility: 5 Wits: 1 Combat: 6 Exhaustion: 0/100 Tools: The Trusty Shovel, Standard Cartridge, Freeze Ray. Xantia Brute: 8 Agility: 7 Wits: 2 Combat: 8 Exhaustion: 0/100 Tools: Megaton Hammer, Guide to Dungeoneering, ARM Blade. =================================<* Party *>================================== Party Leader: Zed Exploration: 0/100 Effects: Your party has no Effects active. Conditions: Your party has no Conditions active. ==============================< Dream Chasers >===============================
DG: A party led by Zed is now entering Bream Chasers.
DG: Party formation is now over. An Entry Challenge will now be drawn and displayed to the party.
=============================<* Bream Chasers *>==============================
======<* CHALLENGE - Courage is the Magic that Makes Breams a Reality *>======
|Type: Entry |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 1 |
--------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------
It all started a short while ago, while you and your party traversed as you
often do, and went about your day. What was to be an ordinary day quickly
became bizarre when the sight of a red light shone across the skies -- along
with the screams of nearby travelers and villagers shouting that it might be
a monster.
Make no mistake. There is Evil afoot here.
It just so happens to be an Evil unconquerable through martial or sorcerous
prowess -- rather, it is an evil that must be conquered through gastronomic
keenness.
Do you dare... chase after your Breams?
When you finally catch up with the red monstrosity, you discover that there
is a gigantic ruby-red sea bream roughly 12 foot in length. It charges at
you, seeking to crush you with its sheer oceanic might!! The battle is
fierce, and draining; curiously, an aura about the bream seems to promote
hunger and thirst, depriving one of sustenance.
By the time the mysterious ruby-red bream is brought down, it settles before
your party, delicate flakes of firm whitefish flesh cascaded in bias upon a
bed of romaine lettuce contrast with arugula. Garnished with slices of
lemon, with a dangerous pale-red bhut jolokia sauce... an extremely potent
and piquant pain that will require great strength of self to overcome.
=Dungeon Conditions: Hesitate=================================================
<Pose Tracker> Zed has posed.
Even in its decline, Filgaia is a wonderful place, full of sights and sounds that can only be described as breathtaking.
And then there's all the other stuff.
Weird cow-abducting spade-head aliens, mysterious lizard scientists, an entire region filled with nothing but salt. There's a lot of stuff in Filgaia that most people would call 'all kinds of fuckin' weird.' And this? This. This is probably near the top of that list.
FIVE MINUTES AGO
"ALRIGHT FRIENDS!" Zed, Metal Demon Supreme and the bestest and most invincible Dark Hero pumps a fist into the air! "It's time for adventure! For discovery! For... Something... Incredible...!"
Zed... points! At what appears to be a mysterious, glowing door! Yes. One of the doors that leads to the mysterious Ordeals of Lunar, hidden in plain sight on the back of a barrel in a perfectly ordinary frontier town...!
Zed grins and reaches for the handle. He goes to turn it, and then...!
*WHAM*
The door flies open! It smashes Zed in the face! A creature out of dream and nightmare races like a red comet out of the open doorway, flopping and wriggling with malicious intent. It...
Looks like a deliciously red sea bream...!?
ONE BOSSFIGHT LATER
Zed pants heavily, wearily, struggling to stand. But the bream lays defeated. The thing wriggles one more time before... POP! The whole thing explodes into a delicious display of cabbage and flaky, white fish...!
It... Looks amazing! But most diggers of right mind would look at such a thing and think: no, that's too good to be true. There's no way in hell that that's safe to eat. But...
This is Zed, so, like.
"Oh man!" Zed squeals, "BOSSFIGHT FOOD! We must consume the flesh of the fallen, friends! That is how he grow in strength!"
And so Zed digs right in. As Zed does.
What of... the rest of you...?
DG: Zed has contributed a Combat Basic Action toward his party's challenge, Courage is the Magic that Makes Breams a Reality.
<Pose Tracker> Dean Stark has posed.
The other stuff is what makes Filgaia so interesting, though! This terrible and ferocious sea bream may be a deadly and dangerous opponent either in or out of the ocean, but once the battle is done, and the fish has laid down its delicious flesh in a most sumptuous manner, Dean can't even remember that originally he'd been here because of a weird door in a barrel that maybe leads back to that island of ordeals back on Lunar.
Maybe it's because he, too, has taken a lot of hits during that fight. Maybe it's because all that fighting has worked up a ravenous appetite, even for a growing teen boy. But when Zed declares this to be bossfight food, Dean's eyes merely sparkle as he drools and his stomach trumpets in eager anticipation. "Oh man, it looks so good...! TIME TO DIG IN!"
...Wh-where'd he get that fork and knife from--or that seafood bib?!
DG: Dean Stark has contributed a Combat Basic Action toward his party's challenge, Courage is the Magic that Makes Breams a Reality.
<Pose Tracker> Xantia has posed.
Returning to Filgaia after such a long absence naturally necessitated some measure of refamiliarization. Which is a fancy way of saying 'Xantia has been going around all over Ignas for the sole purpose of eating all the types of food that she had to go long without'. Not so much dream chasing or even bream chasing, but there was certainly some ice cream chasing involved.
She wouldn't have expected that this journey would lead her to end up part of an impromptu adventuring party, containing a person she already knows and likes (Dean), someone she's never met before (Chime) and this weirdo she's seen running around before but never had all that much interaction with (Zed). Zed certainly has the mannerisms of a Hero about him though, which instantly won Xantia over, and well, she doesn't need much convincing to go on An Adventure, anyway.
The fight that soon follows should probably be somewhat perplexing, but really, Xantia has fought a giant cake before, this doesn't feel all that unusual. Her first thought is that this is probably a Hellion, and she's not managing to see its true form. Which is exceptionally insightful, by her standards, if entirely wrong. Which means that eating it might be a bad idea. But this fight made her hungry, so very hungry...
She doesn't even need any encouragement at this point, or cutlery. She's already got this glowing red energy blade that she used in the fight. It worked to get at delicious fish meats before, it can do so again! "This part's mine!" she quickly calls dibs on... a randomly selected section, really, it's not like she can tell where the most delicious part is or anything.
DG: Xantia has used her Tool ARM Blade toward her party's challenge, Courage is the Magic that Makes Breams a Reality.
<Pose Tracker> Chime Isa has posed.
Collecting stories, tales, and wonders was a key part of why Chime constantly drifted. And what better way than behind a strange door that even those who'd been had some trouble explaining in adqueate terms what was beyond~ To advent- fights?
Chime was not expecting a gaint bream. The very thought makes her giggle throughout the bossfight, brightly smiling as she makes quips and comments about fairytale storys and sea tales~ And to top it off, it explodes into 'bossfight food!'.
The four and half foot tall half can't help herself, she dissolves into fits of giggles over the hilarity of the moment even as she reaches out to taste the pale-red bhut jolokia sauce. Fortunately for anyone in need, forks and knives appear as Chime pulls them from random vest pockets to hand out as she manages to partially compose herself enough to safely eat the delicious bream meal~
DG: Chime Isa has contributed a Combat Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Courage is the Magic that Makes Breams a Reality.
=============================<* Bream Chasers *>==============================
======<* CHALLENGE - Courage is the Magic that Makes Breams a Reality *>======
|Type: Entry |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 1 |
--------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------
It all started a short while ago, while you and your party traversed as you
often do, and went about your day. What was to be an ordinary day quickly
became bizarre when the sight of a red light shone across the skies -- along
with the screams of nearby travelers and villagers shouting that it might be
a monster.
Make no mistake. There is Evil afoot here.
It just so happens to be an Evil unconquerable through martial or sorcerous
prowess -- rather, it is an evil that must be conquered through gastronomic
keenness.
Do you dare... chase after your Breams?
When you finally catch up with the red monstrosity, you discover that there
is a gigantic ruby-red sea bream roughly 12 foot in length. It charges at
you, seeking to crush you with its sheer oceanic might!! The battle is
fierce, and draining; curiously, an aura about the bream seems to promote
hunger and thirst, depriving one of sustenance.
By the time the mysterious ruby-red bream is brought down, it settles before
your party, delicate flakes of firm whitefish flesh cascaded in bias upon a
bed of romaine lettuce contrast with arugula. Garnished with slices of
lemon, with a dangerous pale-red bhut jolokia sauce... an extremely potent
and piquant pain that will require great strength of self to overcome.
=Dungeon Conditions: Hesitate=================================================
========================<* Bream Chasers - Round 1 *>=========================
========< Results - Courage is the Magic that Makes Breams a Reality >========
Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail
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Zed 0 --(0)--> 0 Pass
Fight 0 Combat Effects: BASIC
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Xantia 0 --(0)--> 0 Pass
ARM Blade 2 Combat Effects: Embolden
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Chime Isa 0 --(0)--> 0 Pass
Fight 0 Combat Effects: BASIC
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Dean Stark 0 --(0)--> 0 Pass
Fight 0 Combat Effects: BASIC
----------------------------------< Party >-----------------------------------
Leader: Zed 0 --(20)--> 20 Pass
Conditions: Hesitate(2)
Effects: Embolden(1)
==============================< Dream Chasers >===============================
DG: The party led by Zed has passed this challenge! The party gained 20 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw.
<Pose Tracker> Zed has posed.
Bhut Jolokia, that crimson killer, the assassin of spice...! Is not nearly enough to deter these culinary adventurers...! Zed digs right in, shoveling handfuls of curried fish into his gaping maw. Xantia's assessment is correct: he IS a hero... A heroic gourmet...!
The rest of the team fares just about as well. Clearly they're all far too familiar with curries and chiles to be deterred by the most dangerous ingredient in the bunch. With a final couple chomps, Dean and Chime finish off what's left of the spread and Zed leans back with a sigh. "Hoooh, that was a nice after-fight snack. Now! ONWARDS TO-- eh?"
Zed blinks. His eyes narrow. "Wait... Something more is coming...!"
But... what...?
<Pose Tracker> Chime Isa has posed.
Chime quips after the meal, "Well, that was just bread for deliciousness~" giggling helplessly.
DG: Dean Stark has drawn a new Challenge.
==============================<* Bream Chasers *>===============================
========================<* CHALLENGE - Mussel Sprouts *>========================
|Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Brute |Challenge Rating: 2 |
---------------------------< Challenge Information: >---------------------------
Ah, the Brussel Sprout. A humble vegetable if there ever was one, a
miniature cabbage that does not achieve culinary perfection in most
households due to its penchant for being boiled beyond recognition by
parents who don't know better.
Wait-- no, this is no ordinary Brussel Sprout, for it seems that
freshly-shucked mussels have been carefully groomed and seated upon the
crown of each, simmered in a mirepoix-boosted, spiced coconut sauce...
To achieve the culinary fusion of-- Mussel Sprouts?! You'll need... muscle
to move through these mussels. Beef up!
Wait, there's no beef here--
=Dungeon Conditions: Fright===================================================
<Pose Tracker> Dean Stark has posed.
Spice just whets the appetite to a razor-sharp edge! No matter how hot this bhut jolokia may be, it only joins forces with the heat in everyone's hearts, and stomachs, and pushes them to the edge of their palates. Before long, the sea bream has been skeletonized, and everyone leans back in satisfaction.
"That *was* nice. What was that red spicy stuff? It had a real kick--even harder than that fish's fin slap!" Dean says cheerfully. He laughs at Chime's joke, then pats his stomach and grins at Xantia and Zed. "Whew... Well, I'm ready for the next course, what about you guys?"
He says this just in time for Zed to sight their next challenge--a wall of steamed greens. The group hurries over to inspect it, but this wall is so thick and creamy that, honestly, how can they pass it up? The brussel sprouts... the mussels... the coconut sauce that binds the two together... They'll have to shovel it down to get past!
Luckily, White Fenrir managed to survive the assault on Azado after all, and after all that, Dean went out of his way to wash it. His trusty shovel, which he pulls out from under his coat because that's how item storage works dontchaknow, is glistening and prim, ready to serve heaping helpings of the Mussel Sprouts to everyone!
"Time to break down this wall!" Dean declares, foreshadowing plot beats countless hours in advance, as he literally digs in. "C'mon, guys--we can do this, together!!"
DG: Dean Stark has used his Tool The Trusty Shovel toward his party's challenge, Mussel Sprouts.
<Pose Tracker> Chime Isa has posed.
Finishing the delicous bream, Chime hums softly enjoying the after glow of a good meal smiling brightly. Then suddenly~
"This is no thyme to go fast, breader dig in!" Chime quips, giggling helplessly as the group comes up the fearsome Mussel Sprouts, sprouting right up in their way like a carefully grown culinary wall. "Chow will we ever dill with these?"
Chime's giggles become to much, and the short elf does her best to help chowing through the mussel sprout fusion. Despite them being both of her least favorite foods. The entire situtation is just so hilariously amusing to Chime she keeps going~ "We cannoli beet this challenge together! It'll be a wok in the park~"
DG: Chime Isa has contributed a Brute Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Mussel Sprouts.
<Pose Tracker> Xantia has posed.
This fish is... spicy, really spicy! Xantia clearly wasn't expecting that from the way she grimaces while chewing, but she's not about to let a little eyewatering get between her and her food, not when she's this hungry! Having to suffer pain for something this good is worth it. She just... does her best to avoid that sauce as much as possible, once she's figured out that's where the pain is coming from.
Puns sadly a wasted effort on someone who doesn't get them 99 percent of the time, Chime's remarks are not even spared a glance from the fiery-haired pugilist. After all, there's still more food to be had, which demands all of her attention! Her reply to Dean is simply, "Yeah, I'm still hungry!" Because of course she is.
She is, in fact, so hungry that she almost literally runs straight into the wall. She doesn't even stop to appreciate it for what it is, it's just More Food to her. She digs right in using her hands, sadly not such good digging tools as Dean has to use. "This isn't fast enough," she complains.
That's when Dean says the magic words. "Break it down? Okay!" Aaaaand she takes out the large hammer that she kept strapped to her back and slams it directly into the wall. What, that's what you wanted right??
DG: Xantia has used her Tool Megaton Hammer toward her party's challenge, Mussel Sprouts.
<Pose Tracker> Zed has posed.
This... This is unusually familiar, Zed thinks. He has sensed this killing intent somewhere before. Once. A long time ago. But... Where...?
...No. That doesn't matter...! Zed grins, laughs, and... fishes what looks to be an enormous spiked ball out of his scarf!? "Yes! Let's... See what lies beyond this horizon...! This delicious, nutritious horizon!!"
Zed swings his hammer! It pulverizes large heads of too-tough sprouts, mixing the mussels and coconut sauce and greens even more into culinary perfection...!
Apparently he and Xantia have the same idea, though! Zed flashes the other crushing culinarian a thumbs up as he shovels a handful of creamy goodness into his face!
DG: Zed has used his Tool Berserk Hammer toward his party's challenge, Mussel Sprouts.
==============================<* Bream Chasers *>===============================
========================<* CHALLENGE - Mussel Sprouts *>========================
|Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Brute |Challenge Rating: 2 |
---------------------------< Challenge Information: >---------------------------
Ah, the Brussel Sprout. A humble vegetable if there ever was one, a
miniature cabbage that does not achieve culinary perfection in most
households due to its penchant for being boiled beyond recognition by
parents who don't know better.
Wait-- no, this is no ordinary Brussel Sprout, for it seems that
freshly-shucked mussels have been carefully groomed and seated upon the
crown of each, simmered in a mirepoix-boosted, spiced coconut sauce...
To achieve the culinary fusion of-- Mussel Sprouts?! You'll need... muscle
to move through these mussels. Beef up!
Wait, there's no beef here--
=Dungeon Conditions: Fright===================================================
=========================<* Bream Chasers - Round 2 *>==========================
==========================< Results - Mussel Sprouts >==========================
Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail
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Zed 0 --(5)--> 5 Pass
Berserk Hammer 3 Brute Effects: Strengthen and Sacrif
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Xantia 0 --(5)--> 5 Pass
Megaton Hammer 3 Brute Effects: Fanfare
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Chime Isa 0 --(10)--> 10 Fail
Force 0 Brute Effects: BASIC
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Dean Stark 0 --(5)--> 5 Pass
The Trusty Shovel 2 Brute Effects: Stalwart
-----------------------------------< Party >------------------------------------
Leader: Zed 20 --(20)--> 40 Pass
Conditions: Fright(2)|Hesitate(1)
Effects: Strengthen(1)
===============================< Dream Chasers >================================
DG: The party led by Zed has passed this challenge! The party gained 20 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw.
<Pose Tracker> Dean Stark has posed.
Dean's a liiiittle better off than Xantia when it comes to getting wordplay, but really, what gets him laughing along with Chime is how obviously she's having just a fantastic time here. "Yeah! That's the spirit!" he declares cheerfully, pun-free. All spirits are welcome here! Even if they're not quite connecting. Maybe it's because they're underage?
Then Xantia breaks out a giant hammer, and Dean pauses mid-shoveling. "Wait, Xantia, I meant break it down like grab a bunch and then eat it, not--" WHAM. She and Zed slam their hammer and spiked ball into the wall together, and with the weakening Dean put in the wall with his shoveling, the two of them easily demolish it. Mussel Sprouts fly everywhere, languidly, in seas of spicy coconut sauce, to be eaten right out of the air. Which Dean and presumably also the others do. It's... it's like heaven...!!
And what lies beyond the wall they've overcome, but--?!
DG: Xantia has drawn a new Challenge.
=============================<* Bream Chasers *>==============================
==================<* CHALLENGE - Bomb-- I mean BAUMkuchen *>==================
|Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 1 |
--------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------
It seems that it's arbitrarily dessert time with the Bream, for what next
comes out...
... is baumkuchen, a ring-shaped cake composed of many layers that remind
one of the rings of a tree when cut. It is delicate, moist and yet fluffy,
possessing an airy and uplifting texture with a hint of natural vanilla
lightly sweetened and spiced with cinnamon, alongside a bark-like crust of
ganache--
--wait, but it seems that this is the explosive variant, bombkuchen.
There's a hiss as the cake itself begins to glow. Eat it fast... eat it
fast! It does not explode in the stomach!! Maybe.
=Dungeon Conditions: Reckless=================================================
<Pose Tracker> Xantia has posed.
Dean's words fall on deaf ears, at least partially because of the deafening impact of two massive bludgeoning tools used in tandem. But it /worked/, didn't it? That's all that matters! Xantia answers Zed's thumbs-up with the same gesture, then busies herself with all the mussel sprouts she can manage to catch--
Until there's a sudden sizzling sound coming from what remains of the bream. Did it spontaneously start to re-grill itself?! Not quite, it's actually...
"CAKE!"
If Xantia's elated shout doesn't draw the others' attention, her sudden rush to start shoving cakes into her mouth probably will. Has she even noticed that these cakes have a rather ominous glow? Not to mention that constant hissing sound...
Well, that never stopped Xantia from eating when it was live snakes, so what chance do cakes have?
DG: Xantia has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Bomb-- I mean BAUMkuchen.
<Pose Tracker> Chime Isa has posed.
Despite her hunger, Chime eagerly steps back while still giggling letting the other three demolish the fusion of mussel sprouts. "Yay~ Well done~ Keep it up~" she cheers, if only so she can limit the amount of it she herself has to eat. Hunger was preferable. AND LOOK!
"CAKE!"
Chime shouts only a split second after Xantia, and the small elf is no slower to rush to it~ It's a baumkuchen, and it must be devoured! The red-head is more than happy to chow down on the sweet, airy, moist cake because honestly, /who doesn't like sweets/.
The glowing sizzling noise does remind Chime of a number of explosives, but that just means it probably has a gooey chocolate center waiting to be discovered right, a baumkuchen chocolate lava cake~ YES PLEASE.
DG: Chime Isa has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Bomb-- I mean BAUMkuchen.
<Pose Tracker> Zed has posed.
'CAKE'
It's the call to action. There is nothing in this world that Zed craves to eat more than DELICIOUS CAKE.
Except, you know, maybe steak???
But yeah, Cake is definitely up there. Way up there. Zed perks up like a dog that's just heard bacon thrown on the griddle. Drool and leftover coconut sauce drip from the edge of his mouth. "Cake?" Zed asks, "Did you say... Cake!?"
Zed's scarf wiggles, twists, and suddenly grows several times its original length. "Give it here! I require... DELICIOUS SWEETS!" The scarf shoots forward, skewering multiple individual cakes right down the middle. They're hissing-- that only means they're so delicious that you can actually hear it escaping from the dough! AND THAT MEANS THEY NEED TO EAT IT QUICK!
And so Zed... just kind of shoves the entire skewer of cakes into his gaping maw.
And again. And again.
His scarf has two ends, you see.
DG: Zed has used his Tool Grapple Scarf toward his party's challenge, Bomb-- I mean BAUMkuchen.
<Pose Tracker> Dean Stark has posed.
Or maybe... STEAK CAKE?!
... No, on second thought, that sounds gross.
But this! THIS! This amazing cake with its fluffy texture, a bit of vanilla and cinnamon, a crunchy ganache... But the heat of the late Filgaian summer is making it go red and hissy! Maybe?
"That cake looks *amaziiiiing*!" Dean declares, eyes sparkling as Xantia and Chime just straight-up dive right into it. "But it's making a weird sizzly noise... I think it needs cooling down? Let me take care of that!" And then he shoots the base upon which the cake rests with his Freeze Ray, icing it over. Perhaps that'll get the bombkuchen's impending explosion to sizzle?!
Of course, in the time it takes Dean to do this, Zed has shoved almost all the remaining cake in his mouthhole. "Aaaahhh!! Hey, no fair, leave some for me!!" he protests, diving for what remains of the delicious lava cake. But will his earlier attempt to cool it down backfire on him?!
DG: Dean Stark has used his Tool Freeze Ray toward his party's challenge, Bomb-- I mean BAUMkuchen.
=============================<* Bream Chasers *>==============================
==================<* CHALLENGE - Bomb-- I mean BAUMkuchen *>==================
|Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 1 |
--------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------
It seems that it's arbitrarily dessert time with the Bream, for what next
comes out...
... is baumkuchen, a ring-shaped cake composed of many layers that remind
one of the rings of a tree when cut. It is delicate, moist and yet fluffy,
possessing an airy and uplifting texture with a hint of natural vanilla
lightly sweetened and spiced with cinnamon, alongside a bark-like crust of
ganache--
--wait, but it seems that this is the explosive variant, bombkuchen.
There's a hiss as the cake itself begins to glow. Eat it fast... eat it
fast! It does not explode in the stomach!! Maybe.
=Dungeon Conditions: Reckless=================================================
========================<* Bream Chasers - Round 3 *>=========================
====================< Results - Bomb-- I mean BAUMkuchen >====================
Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail
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Zed 5 --(0)--> 5 Pass
Grapple Scarf 2 Agility Effects: Quicken
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Xantia 5 --(0)--> 5 Pass
Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC
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Chime Isa 10 --(0)--> 10 Pass
Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC
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Dean Stark 5 --(0)--> 5 Pass
Freeze Ray 2 Agility Effects: Quicken
----------------------------------< Party >-----------------------------------
Leader: Zed 40 --(20)--> 60 Pass
Conditions: Fright(1)|Reckless(2)
Effects: Quicken(1)
==============================< Dream Chasers >===============================
DG: The party led by Zed has passed this challenge! The party gained 20 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw.
<Pose Tracker> Xantia has posed.
Caaaaaake! Nothing can stop you when you're eating cake! It certainly can't stop THIS group at least. Thankfully Xantia has already eaten quite a few when Dean suddenly interjects with this Ray of Coldness, prompting a yelp as she suddenly backs away. She rushes back in short order, but grimaces at the first cake she touches. "Aw, now it's all cold! Why'd you have to do that?"
Not a fan of cold cakes, evidently. It still doesn't stop her from eating more, just... not quite as fast as before. But between the four of them and the reduced temperature, there's not even a tiny chance of the cakes' little hidden surprise to end up happening.
What culinary adventure lies in wait next...?
DG: Chime Isa has drawn a new Challenge.
=============================<* Bream Chasers *>==============================
======================<* CHALLENGE - Seraph Food Cake *>======================
|Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 2 |
--------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------
The Angel Food Cake, named so after the mythical figures in Granasian and
Nissan faiths, is a lightly-flavoured vanilla cake with a sponge-like
texture that's so delicate and fluffy that it's described to be like
"floating on the wings of an angel". Or some culinary poets do say.
The Seraph Food Cake appears to be someone's idea of taking it to the next
level, because this cake's batter and subsequent rise in the oven is whipped
so light you need to be Resonant to see it.
The cake part, anyway. There's a mercifully mundane layer of baked cinnamon
crumble at the base for the unresonant... but that's terribly unsatisfying,
now is it?
=Dungeon Conditions: Secret===================================================
<Pose Tracker> Chime Isa has posed.
Delicious baumkuchen is devoured, and sadly no hidden explosive gooey chocolate centers are revealed. What a cake walk through. Thankfully the ongoings seem as nutty as a fruit cake as the ground doesn't shake, for the arriving wall of a massive Seraph Food Cake is so light it doesn't even make a noise as it arrives! It's just there~
Chime's eyes go wide in wonderment at the sight of a massive, fluffy, light, delicious supreme looking angel food cake. A SERAPH FOOD CAKE. "Ooohh, now that's berry amaizing!" she chimes, already moving to get her self piece! MORE SWEET DELICIOUS CAKE~
"This'll be a wok in the park! I'm so grilled for this!" she quips, "Just needs a pita of sauce~" as she pulls out a book from her vest to consult for the best sauce for a moment before remembering she can't make a sauce right now.
DG: You use your Tool Cure-Alls against your party's Challenge, Seraph Food Cake! DG: Chime Isa has used her Tool Cure-Alls toward her party's challenge, Seraph Food Cake.
<Pose Tracker> Zed has posed.
What's next? WHAT'S NEXT!? That's obvious! Plain for anyone to see!
The next step is...
Even more cake.
Kopious Keiki.
It's like this fish was like, mostly made of dessert or something. Zed isn't complaining, but it's kind of weird that so much cake is dropping out of a weird comet fish.
OH WELL.
"Hmmmmmmmn," Zed says, squinting hard at the... strangely diaphanous dessert. He can see it. Kind of. A haze of cake so deliciously delicate and fluffy that only those whose eyes are imbued with the ability to see spiritual sorts are able to see it...!
Zed cheated for his spirit sight. But that's fine. You don't need to see something to taste it.
"Hmmmmmn-" Zed hmms, and then shoves a piece into his face. "-mmnom."
Beat.
"Ooh, cinnamon crumb!"
DG: Zed has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward his party's challenge, Seraph Food Cake.
<Pose Tracker> Dean Stark has posed.
"I'm sorry, Xantia," Dean says sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head as his ARMs vanish. "But it'd be awful if the inside was so hot you burned your tongue on it. Then you couldn't taste anything! I'm sure the cake's still good!" ...Though he'll only get a slice for his efforts. That's barely any cake at all!!
So it's a good thing that there's /more/ cake on the menu--and not just cake, but a Resonant cake--and here he is, just recently having gained enough Resonance to see beyond the veil. That cinnamon crumb base... That light and fluffy batter... the way it rises and encompasses the heart of the world... Dean's eyes grow round at the sight of it.
"Where did *that* come from?" he breathes. "Oh, who cares, let's just eat!"
Why *is* this sea bream dropping so much extra food? It's hard to say. Fortunately, no one here seems inclined to question their fortunes. IT's just there, so amazingly delicious, at least for those who can properly see it, that it makes one feel like firing joyously into the air.
Which is exactly what Dean does after his first mouthful, Twin Fenrir flashing into his hands and then just. Cutting loose. He doesn't shoot the food itself, at least. Perhaps the sharp retort helps sharpens the others's senses so they can better see what they're eating? Or something like that?!
"Ooh, if you make a sauce, let me have some!" Dean says enthusiastically to Chime, ARMs vanishing again. To Zed, when he perks at the cinnamon, he chirps, "I know, isn't it great?!" A-at least he stopped shooting the sky for no reason...
DG: Dean Stark has used his Tool Standard Cartridge toward his party's challenge, Seraph Food Cake.
<Pose Tracker> Xantia has posed.
Of course, Dean informing Xantia about the perils of hot cakes after she's already wolfed down a whole pile of them is probably a little moot. Still, she nods a bit, understanding the reasoning at least. Who has time to be upset when there's all this food happening, anyway? Although this might have been the high point. After all those delicious cakes, there couldn't possibly be anything more tasty to follow this up!
Chime's sudden enthusiasm seems to imply otherwise. But when Xantia turns to look, what she sees is... nothing all that special. It kind of looks like it's supposed to be a cake, just... unfinished. It's still food, but she has to wonder, "Um... is this really that great?"
This presents an interesting conundrum for Xantia, whose level of Resonance has always been questionable and unreliable at best. Even now, she doesn't seem able to see what's so great about this supposed cake, approaching it without the level of interest you'd expect from her. However, she has a sense sharper than sight. Even if her eyes are fooled, her nose is not. When she gets closer to it, closes her eyes, and takes a deep breath, she can /smell/ the cake for what it is.
Then she opens her eyes... and the complete cake is just /there/, all of a sudden. This, too, is a result of 'cheating' her way into seeing things she couldn't see before. Xantia wouldn't be able to explain it if you asked her, but it's not like she's about to question it with such an amazing cake right in front of her. A little late to the party this time, but it doesn't stop her from launching her own assault upon the cake. "Oh wow, it IS great!"
Maybe she'll stop and wonder one day why it took a while before she could actually see the cake. Or how all this stuff can come out of a bream. It's possible. Maybe not very likely.
DG: Xantia has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Seraph Food Cake.
=============================<* Bream Chasers *>==============================
======================<* CHALLENGE - Seraph Food Cake *>======================
|Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 2 |
--------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------
The Angel Food Cake, named so after the mythical figures in Granasian and
Nissan faiths, is a lightly-flavoured vanilla cake with a sponge-like
texture that's so delicate and fluffy that it's described to be like
"floating on the wings of an angel". Or some culinary poets do say.
The Seraph Food Cake appears to be someone's idea of taking it to the next
level, because this cake's batter and subsequent rise in the oven is whipped
so light you need to be Resonant to see it.
The cake part, anyway. There's a mercifully mundane layer of baked cinnamon
crumble at the base for the unresonant... but that's terribly unsatisfying,
now is it?
=Dungeon Conditions: Secret===================================================
========================<* Bream Chasers - Round 4 *>=========================
========================< Results - Seraph Food Cake >========================
Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail
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Zed 5 --(20)--> 25 Fail
Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC
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Xantia 5 --(15)--> 20 Pass
Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC
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Chime Isa 10 --(15)--> 25 Pass
Cure-Alls 1 Wits Effects: Cleanse
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Dean Stark 5 --(20)--> 25 Fail
Standard Cartridge 3 Wits Effects: Fanfare
----------------------------------< Party >-----------------------------------
Leader: Zed 60 --(10)--> 70 Fail
Conditions: Reckless(1)|Secret(2)
Effects: Cleanse
==============================< Dream Chasers >===============================
DG: The party led by Zed has failed this challenge! The party gained 10 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw.
<Pose Tracker> Chime Isa has posed.
Cake upon Cake is the best dessert course ever. Specially for Xantia and Chime! Despite her initial qualms on approach, once Xantia realized the majestic glory of the Seraph Food Cake she and Chime made massive inroads on it quickly leaving the crumb for Zed and whatever leftovers Dean can find as he wasted time shooting nothing.
"Oooo, I haven't had a cake that good in, hhmmm, thirty years~" Chime groans happily licking angel food cake off her fingers and cleaning her trusty knife and fork. "I hope there's more~"
DG: Zed has drawn a new Challenge.
=============================<* Bream Chasers *>==============================
======================<* CHALLENGE - Caravane Kinship *>======================
|Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 2 |
--------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------
Ah, no. Not that one.
The Caravane is a unique camel's milk cheese originating from the desert
regions of Meribia, near the village of Larpa. The tale goes that this
cheese is quite the rarity, owing to a copious amount needed amongst the
camels of nomadic herdsmen, making it quite the noble delicacy indeed...
With a brie-like appearance, with a distinctive white rind and softly
melting, it is a true accompaniment to peppered cracker with pate. Quite the
haute piece of culinary delicacy, perhaps requiring something of puissance
and subtlety to truly enjoy.
Enjoy this cheese today, with your kin,
For with the caravane, you'll always win.
=Dungeon Conditions: Save Point===============================================
<Pose Tracker> Zed has posed.
CaraKin, CaraKin, our delicious cheese will make you grin CaraKin, CaraKin, please adhere to our end user license agreement or our lawyers will have your skin~o/"
"What," Zed says at the mysterious, Larpan cheese. He has never seen such a thing before, such a soft, fluffy cheese. It oozes and melts into a delicate cream at even the slightest touch. It flows across salty wafers and crackers, mixing flavors sweet and savory together into a singularly delicate taste experience...!
"How are we supposed to eat this??" Zed boggles, getting ooey gooey cheese all over his grubby mitts. "It melts too quick! Ahhh!"
Screw it!
Zed! Shoves his face into it.
Bubbles of air blorp nearby as he just sort of... drinks the cheese.
DG: Zed has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward his party's challenge, Caravane Kinship.
<Pose Tracker> Chime Isa has posed.
Chime tilts her head at the appearance of... dare she call it... Haughty Cheese. Uuggghh, it reminds her of that one childhood memory of accompanying her parents to Adlehyde Castle for something. But! An ARMs Meister always comes prepared! CRACKERS! Regular salt crackers, but still.
Chime offers the crackers around, saying "Use these, it'll make it grate~" with a giggle. "It's gouda with crackers, I promise~". "Veggies would work too, but will have to suffries with what appetite-sized foods we have~" her giggling not stopping.
DG: Chime Isa has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Caravane Kinship.
<Pose Tracker> Dean Stark has posed.
Th-that's a weird song.
Dean once again misses out on cake times by letting himself get too distracted, and while he might get a few delicious bites, e's left craving more sweetness in its wake. With the Seraph Food Cake gone, he's left disappointed--but at least there's more ahead! Such a delicious, sweet, melty, gooey cheese, such that he can spread it on crackers or bread or whatever as a post-dinner palate cleanser...! But it's TOO gooey. It's TOO creamy! How can they eat it like this?!
"Here, I'll break it up into parts! It oughtta be easier that way!" Dean suggests, before gunning lines through the cheese. Zed thus has his own portion of cheese to suck up, as do Chime and Xantia--and, once his ARMs shimmer away, Dean dives for his portion. "You're not getting away this time!!"
...Looks like his manners aren't much better than Zed's. At least Chime's supplying the crackers?
DG: Dean Stark has used his Tool Standard Cartridge toward his party's challenge, Caravane Kinship.
<Pose Tracker> Xantia has posed.
That cake truly was what you would call 'divine'. Xantia thinks she may finally understand why that term is sometimes used in relation to food. She... kinda didn't use any cutlery, like she hasn't been all this time, so she's kind of a mess at this point. But that's hardly something she's concerned about right now.
What does manage to draw her attention for a moment is Chime's comment, prompting a surprised, "Thirty years...?" Chime doesn't look THAT old! Thirty years is kind of an infathomable eternity to Xantia in general. After all, everything she can remember doesn't even reach as far back as two years.
It's also not actually very important when there's still more food to be had! She gratefully accepts the offer of crackers just because it's more food to go with the food, and... pauses a moment, not needing to ask the question of how she's actually supposed to eat this because Zed already did. And despite the answer Zed arrives at, and Xantia not seeming to mind making a mess of things, imitating THAT maneuver seems a bridge too far, even for her.
Instead, she imitates Dean. Which means slurping time! What even are manners, probably nothing that matters!
DG: Xantia has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Caravane Kinship.
=============================<* Bream Chasers *>==============================
======================<* CHALLENGE - Caravane Kinship *>======================
|Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 2 |
--------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------
Ah, no. Not that one.
The Caravane is a unique camel's milk cheese originating from the desert
regions of Meribia, near the village of Larpa. The tale goes that this
cheese is quite the rarity, owing to a copious amount needed amongst the
camels of nomadic herdsmen, making it quite the noble delicacy indeed...
With a brie-like appearance, with a distinctive white rind and softly
melting, it is a true accompaniment to peppered cracker with pate. Quite the
haute piece of culinary delicacy, perhaps requiring something of puissance
and subtlety to truly enjoy.
Enjoy this cheese today, with your kin,
For with the caravane, you'll always win.
=Dungeon Conditions: Save Point===============================================
========================<* Bream Chasers - Round 5 *>=========================
========================< Results - Caravane Kinship >========================
Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail
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Zed 25 --(20)--> 45 Fail
Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC
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Xantia 20 --(20)--> 40 Fail
Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC
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Chime Isa 25 --(15)--> 40 Pass
Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC
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Dean Stark 25 --(15)--> 40 Pass
Standard Cartridge 3 Wits Effects: Fanfare
----------------------------------< Party >-----------------------------------
Leader: Zed 70 --(10)--> 80 Fail
Conditions: Save Point(1)|Secret(1)
Effects:
==============================< Dream Chasers >===============================
DG: The party led by Zed has failed this challenge! The party gained 10 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw.
<Pose Tracker> Zed has posed.
You know.
There's a distinct possibility here that 'shoving your face into it and drinking it' is probably not the way that this challenge is supposed to be tackled. Like. Somewhere in Meribia, there's a camel rancher who suddenly feels like his culture is being both appropriated and horrible, irreparably violated.
Zed doesn't care. He's still blurbling happily in a puddle of what used to be cheese. But... The richness, the creaminess, they weigh him down, they gurgle in his belly. It's... So bad.
But... so good.
Xantia understands. She does. Dean... Survives by splitting the cheese up nice and fair so he doesn't end up eating too much of the too-rich deliciousness. And then there's Chime.
Who... knows how to eat cheese, apparently?
Huh!!!
DG: Xantia has drawn a new Challenge.
=============================<* Bream Chasers *>==============================
===================<* CHALLENGE - The Glaze of Disaster *>====================
|Type: Final |Dungeon Ability: Wi-WAIT! No! Brute |Challenge Rating: 2 |
--------------------------< Challenge Information: >--------------------------
A figure of lore, Lord Blazer was a calamity that consumed the world--
--no, sorry, once more the references have been mixed up. What you face
before you is Lord Braiser, the Glaze of Disaster, an enormously slippery
and deadly calamity that was only able to be faced down by the brave
heroine, Anaesthecia, who reportedly sealed her sense of taste away with
anaesthetics in order to grasp victory.
And slippery it is, in the form of strands of glass noodles slicked black
with aforementioned glaze with flecks of gold leaf and red peppers. The more
you eat, the more it seems like it'll take over a piece of your mind with
its otherworldly, astonishingly delicious taste...! Gird yourself, lest it
take over a piece of your very soul!!
=Dungeon Conditions: Save Point===============================================
<Pose Tracker> Xantia has posed.
For once in her life, Xantia fails to finish her portion of a meal. Something about this cheese evidently isn't agreeing with her. Judging from the face she's making, it's obvious that she isn't feeling very good.
Once the others succeed at draining the last of the cheese however, it is revealed. A noodle dish, emanating with an aura of finality. As in, not just the final hidden surprise this bream has to offer, but it might be the final thing you ever eat, if you don't act with caution and pace yourself.
But there's no way that's ever going to happen with THIS group, is there?
Xantia seems to spontaneously recover upon this sight, cheerfully declaring, "Alright, looks like we have one more to go! Let's make this quick!"
'What does she mean by that', one might ask, which is a silly question with an even sillier answer. Xantia picks up her hammer again, and starts smashing the calamitously glazed meal into literal noodle pancakes.
If the chef could see her doing this to a dish, there would probably be Words about this enormous level of disrespect for something that probably took hours to prepare. But it can't be argued that this makes it a lot easier to eat! Xantia is certainly eager to, not particularly minding to eat directly off of her hammer. How unsanitary.
DG: Xantia has used her Tool Megaton Hammer toward her party's challenge, The Glaze of Disaster.
<Pose Tracker> Chime Isa has posed.
Chime enjoys her crackers and cheese. It's delicious! But no sooner is it done than Lord Braiser, the Glaze of Diasater occurs! It's silky ink black glaze, flecked through with hints of bright red peppers and shiny gold leaf flakes. Coating slender glass noodles soaking in the glaze. It's.. It's to much!
And when things are to much, a path needs to be made! And what better to help make a path than a bomb! What bomb? The one Chime produces from her toolbox on the back of her belt and is throwing into the mix now!
"Donut mind me! Just try not to diet~ And I'll make a butter path through these grate noodles!" she quips with giggles, as bombs away go and she pulls out a pair of... chopsticks?! And where did that oversized bowl come from? Is... She is! She's going to catch noodles and glaze! Or fail cheerfully.
DG: You use your Tool Path Maker against your party's Challenge, The Glaze of Disaster! DG: Chime Isa has used her Tool Path Maker toward her party's challenge, The Glaze of Disaster.
<Pose Tracker> Zed has posed.
There's something about these noodles. Zed can't quite put his finger on it. The familiarity is something tangible and real-- as if that glaze were some distant, half-forgotten relative. Kin from another era, another world.
...
But Zed can't possibly be even slightly related to noodle glaze, can he? No! He is Zed, the hero darker and more magnificent than any jet black glaze. The warrior whose blood burns redder and hotter than any pepper! Whose deeds glisten golden and more gloriously than any decorative dressing!
The malice pervading this dish does little to dampen his spirit. In fact, it only bolsters it...! "Yeah! I know just the right trick. Leave the speed to me...! Here I go!!"
Zed grabs hold of his trusty hammer. The massive spiked ball lurches as he holds it boldly overhead. With a cackle and a roar, Zed begins... spinning it. Somehow. He's turning the great big iron ball into a great big iron drill. "Gigaaaaaaa--" Zed booms, drawing his DRILL FIST back. "Drillllll--!" He kicks off, shooting forward with arm outstretched, "BRAAAAAAIIIIISEEEEEEEEEEEEERR!"
The spikes on that ball whirl and twirl like the twines of some kind of massive fork! The slippery noodles are drawn up and around, swirled into a great big noodle ball that lets no strand escape!
With his meal secure, Zed comes to an abrupt stop, explosions erupting in the background as if punctuating the delivery of his ULTIMATE ATTACK.
And then Zed turns, and... just straight up starts chomping on the noodle sphere.
...
It feels vaguely like something is trying to penetrate his mind.
...
Maybe it gets in? Maybe. But the only thing it will find there... Is perhaps the cold, cruel void itself-- an intellect like a black hole, drawing in all it takes in and letting none escape...! The perfect trap, for such a terrible culinary spirit...!
DG: Zed has used his Tool Berserk Hammer toward his party's challenge, The Glaze of Disaster.
<Pose Tracker> Dean Stark has posed.
This meal... is good. It's so good. It's *sooo* good... so good that once Dean has finished slurping up his portion of the delicious cheese, mopping up the remaining sauce with the help of Chime's crackers, he's... f-full?! How can this be?! There's still one last final noodle dish to go! And it's so fresh and clear, with a spicy glaze, and cold glass noodles flaked with red and gold, left to go...!
"Mmm... I'm done, though," he remarks to Xantia, rolling over with a round tummy, yawning and on the verge of nodding off. But then his companions all to their best to stand up against it, Chime with her puns unquivering in the face of glazeger, and Zed drilling his way through, and Xantia readying her hammer...
"Awww, okay, just one or two more bites!" Dean says cheerily, rolling himself around and once again raising his shovel. "I'll just grab a small portion for myself," he says, meaning a heaping portion that would fill the blade of the mighty WHITE FENRIR, "and that's it!"
And so, for the last time, together with the others...
He /digs in/.
DG: Dean Stark has used his Tool The Trusty Shovel toward his party's challenge, The Glaze of Disaster.
==============================<* Bream Chasers *>===============================
====================<* CHALLENGE - The Glaze of Disaster *>=====================
|Type: Final |Dungeon Ability: Brute |Challenge Rating: 2 |
---------------------------< Challenge Information: >---------------------------
A figure of lore, Lord Blazer was a calamity that consumed the world--
--no, sorry, once more the references have been mixed up. What you face
before you is Lord Braiser, the Glaze of Disaster, an enormously slippery
and deadly calamity that was only able to be faced down by the brave
heroine, Anaesthecia, who reportedly sealed her sense of taste away with
anaesthetics in order to grasp victory.
And slippery it is, in the form of strands of glass noodles slicked black
with aforementioned glaze with flecks of gold leaf and red peppers. The more
you eat, the more it seems like it'll take over a piece of your mind with
its otherworldly, astonishingly delicious taste...! Gird yourself, lest it
take over a piece of your very soul!!
=Dungeon Conditions: Save Point===============================================
=========================<* Bream Chasers - Round 6 *>==========================
======================< Results - The Glaze of Disaster >=======================
Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail
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Zed 45 --(5)--> 50 Pass
Berserk Hammer 3 Brute Effects: Strengthen and Sacrif
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Xantia 40 --(5)--> 45 Pass
Megaton Hammer 3 Brute Effects: Fanfare
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Chime Isa 40 --(5)--> 45 Pass
Path Maker 4 Brute Effects: Liability, Efficient,
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Dean Stark 40 --(5)--> 45 Pass
The Trusty Shovel 2 Brute Effects: Stalwart
-----------------------------------< Party >------------------------------------
Leader: Zed 80 --(35)--> 115 Pass
Conditions: Save Point(1)
Effects: Embolden(1)|Strengthen(1)
===============================< Dream Chasers >================================
DG: You have overcome the dungeon's trials! This run is a success!
DG: The party led by Zed has successfully explored Bream Chasers!
==============================<* Bream Chasers *>===============================
==================<* CHALLENGE - The Recipe of your Breams *>===================
|Type: Discovery |Dungeon Ability: Conclusion|Challenge Rating: 1 |
---------------------------< Challenge Information: >---------------------------
It's over.
It's finally... over.
The Bream lies defeated before you, merely a fish-head and tail and spine as
you finally carve through all layers of culinary oddities that have come
your way. Through hard work, camaraderie, and the spirit of kinship you've
gathered together and prevailed before evil itself. And your reward...
A detailed, beginner-friendly recipe of any of the foods you encountered
along the journey?! As well as tips on how to load it into a sealable
canister, in the case that you want to create a food-related Tool out of
it...
Beware, heroes, that evil does not perpetuate itself within your heart...
(NOTE: You may, optionally, choose to create a food-based Tool out of this
Dig! Treat this as a buffing-type Tool that empowers your team with the rich
calorie content within...?)
=Dungeon Conditions: Treasure=================================================
<Pose Tracker> Xantia has posed.
When it's all said and done... suffice to say that any ill effects there might have been on the minds of those eating it just flat out don't end up happening. Clearly the dish was Not Prepared for such unorthodox ways of eating. A metal hammer, a giant improvised drill-fork, a tool that can literally shovel food, and a freaking bomb. Are there even any minds involved here TO affect??
Somewhere in all that mess, a recipe can be found, that seems to have accidently ended up in the dish. Messy, obviously, but somehow legible. That's good ink, and solid stationary.
The question is where it will end up, because there's the matter of the aforementioned bomb, which sends noodles flying absolutely everywhere when it goes off. Xantia certainly was ill-prepared for one of those to be tossed in the mix, causing her - and possibly others - to be comically splattered by noodle goo. She blinks in confusion a few times, looks around at the others... and then bursts into laughter. How could she not? Even she can see how ridiculous all this has been.
Ridiculous... and a marvelous time. After all, who doesn't enjoy goo(d) food in goo(')d company?
<Pose Tracker> Dean Stark has posed.
Ridiculous indeed. Dean's been so focused on eating that he didn't even notice Chime's bomb until it was too late! His cheeks are stuffed full of quivering spicy noodles when the rest of the heap EXPLODES, sending glazed carb goop, and a set of recipe cards on extremely sturdy parchment, flying down. Dean is ker-splattered, and he too blinks in surprise--before swallowing down his enormous mouthful and laughing alongside Xantia, happy, cheerful, and in great company after a truly legendary meal.
He has no idea what that was all about, but he loved it. And while it might be great to share some of these recipes with Rebecca or someone else who's a good cook to recreate the incredible adventure... soon, he'll be ready for a nice, long, pleasant nap to digest his experiences.
<Pose Tracker> Zed has posed.
And so, just like that, the Braise of Disaster is vanquished...!
In a great big culinary explosion that sends the entire party flying! Zed can't scream with a full mouth, and so he instead continues munching on his noodly spiked ball as he tumbles through the air.
It's only when he slams into the ground, covered in noodle goo and evil glaze that Zed swallows, flops over, and just sort of... Sighs happily into the sky. "Hooooooooh, that was... good...!"
And so it was, laughing and filled with culinary joy, that the party triumphed over the devilish Bream...!
But we know, someday, somewhere, it shall return. Rumor will spread of the miraculous skyfish which delivers culinary masterworks both great and terrible. When it comes, will there be warriors as brave as these to face it...?
Beat.
Wait. Weren't they supposed to be... doing something, though?
...
...?
Ah well. It's probably not important.
<Pose Tracker> Chime Isa has posed.
The only one that seemed prepared for the resulting carbage of the glazed noodles is Chime. Granted, she'd taken note of how the other three attacked those awful fusion mussel sprouts. And she didn't realize they missed her adding a bomb to the mix to help split up the and make easier to get through and the noodles.
The short elven ARMs Meister lithely catches flying noodles covered in glaze in her oversized bowl and eager chows down as she watches the other three handle the majority of the rest.