The timer had been at 29:59 when Moose nudged the capsule over to Calliope. She thanked him, applied the sticker to her board, and squeed in delight when the board started hovering. She spent the rest of Moose's box-opening time tricking around the room with her wheels an inch off the floor.
This is excellent, the main problem with using a Grease spell is that it would make Leo crash. We don't have that issue anymore.
"Your attention, please!" Levi cried. "Last but by no means least, it gives me great pleasure to announce: Moose, the newly-sapient and level 16 Aralez Seeing Eye Dog!"
YES! Wooo! Okay, next stop is killing a boss so we can see crawlers for miles around.
Moose: MOOSE THINKS CALLIOPE SHOULD BE HAPPY! WHY IS CALLIOPE NOT HAPPY? BEING ABLE TO CONVINCE MOM THAT YOU DIDN'T STEAL THE TURKEY EVEN THOUGH TURKEY IS SMEARED ALL OVER YOUR FACE SOUNDS GREAT!
Ah, so Moose is the play dumb type, lol.
"Ran Shiquan... had played stupid and started casually eating the form, making big dumb 'I'm just a doggie and I don't understand what writing is, give me meaty bones awoo' eyes before Ox-head thumped his knuckles down on her skull."
Drew pointed at the bug and said, "Die."
A bar of black fire the size of his index finger lanced across the intervening distance and smashed into the side of the centipede. It drilled straight through the chitin and exploded inside the creature, showering bug parts everywhere.
Aw, man, that's awesome! Really putting a dent in my position of not leveling it and using the time to make money.
Visibly eager to be done with this, Moose glanced at the description and then immediately gulped the potion down.
What was in the legendary flower potion?
can reduce his size by up to 75%, meaning he can go from (for example) 8' at the shoulder to 2' at the shoulder, or any size in between. Size changing maintains proportions.
Oh this is going to be so useful.
Moose: RABBIT GUY IS VERY UNTRUSTING! MOOSE IS DOG, NOT HUMAN! WHY SHOULD DOG AND HUMAN BE SAME-BRAIN??? MOOSE IS SMART BRAIN FOR DOG! ALSO, MOOSE INTELLIGENCE IS NOT 5 TIMES HIGHER THAN PRE-COLLAPSE HUMAN! AFTER MOOSE CHOSE CLASS AND OPENED BOXES IT IS NOW 7.5 TIMES HIGHER!
Repeated twice.
Above, the skyfowl glided from building to building, ignoring the plebeian masses below to such an extent that they occasionally dropped a load of crap on the streets where people were walking.
Yep, that's the dungeon. Arrogant people shitting on you from great heights.
The instant that Drew stepped through the door, there was a crack! of displaced air and Levi appeared, holding a heavy sack in each of his upper hands.
"Yes!" the manager said. He pumped his lower fists and simultaneously shoved both bags at Drew. "Put these away, quick!"
Perfect, lol. He's definitely a good influence on Leo, we should let them hang out more.
"Also, I'd like to find a friendly game of cards. Is your high-roller lounge running?"
Yup, that'll do it.
Then we all head over to the Desperado Club to see about an entrance quest that will get you a pass for the club. Depending on what they have, maybe you do it right away, maybe not.
Oh right, a crawler in the book had a quest with this as a promised reward. We should check out Vanquisher next. Taylor's ability to move around debuffs while simultaneously being in a temple has very good application.
"The high-rollers room is always on the fourth floor, adjacent to the stairs. Directly above this room, in fact. And Drew's luck aura has a radius of 22 meters."
Beautiful.
The quests are described below. The information is a compilation of what the guy at the Desperado Club tells you, what Levi knows and can figure out, and what he can learn from a few hours investigation. Choose one:
Okay, so. There will be no quest on this list, or possibly period, that doesn't make us feel filthy. The quests will be highly dangerous with unfair twists. They will put us into conflict with other crawlers. They will make us do something horrendous, on purpose or even by accident. We're going to need to come at it with the thought that NPC lives don't matter. Otherwise the AI and showrunners have our motivation in a vise. All they need to do is put them in danger and we'll kill ourselves for it. If you're looking for a morally clean quest, not only will there be none and there'll be a live audience laughing, but it's also giving the fisherman a hook.
This is why I'm almost leaning towards burning down the orphanage. It's obviously evil, so it at least won't bite us with hidden evil. Probably.
Speaking of which, I bet the previous posters are right. The AI will be maneuvering another crawler into the rival drug house if it has to beg them to it. They'll probably have mirrored quest to protect the house and kill all attackers. Hell, it's probably the same with most of them. Crawlers hired to protect the caravan, someone gets a quest to protect the orphanage from evil arsonists...
) expectation of recompense to get in.
