Quoted By:
May Goodbalm stared at the mushroom. She leaned forward and sniffed it, a long slow intake of air and spores that would have sent most people to the ground hacking and coughing. Her mother was alternating humming and singing behind her, in a cheery mood having made a good trade for the mana charged mushrooms.
“Where’d we get these mom?”
“Oh? One of the village children brought them in, the Brookside girl I think? Why?”
“Where’d she get them from?”
Her mother shrugged. “Doesn’t matter. Mana charge like this, must have grown off a magical corpse, probably some trader’s exotic pet died and got tossed out. Pity we don’t get things like this anymore.”
May pulled the battered old copy of ‘Fey, Fungals and Fumes’ toward her and flipped through the pages. Hell Spore, Entropy Bloom, Delirious Dongle...
Dungeon Cap. She stabbed her finger at the page, opened her mouth, then stopped. Think May...how does this go down? Reasonable explanation, follow up suspicious, discovery that brings the Tark’s inquisitors down on them? No, no, no...
Her mother started toward her and May slammed the book shut. “I’ve got to run an errand!”
“Oh?” Her mother tilted her head, the long too greasy to be pretty hair they shared hanging toward the ground. “What for?”
“I...I...”
“Oh, I see. Asking the Brooksides about the mushrooms eh?” She smiled playfully.
May swallowed. Oh no, oh no, had she figured it out? Mom seemed like an airhead but she was pretty smart, oh <span class="mu-i">fuck</span>.
“Maybe visit that son of theirs? Oh, I remember those heady days...You are the right age I suppose, and the Brooksides are a nice enough family.”
May’s face glowed with heat. “Um, I’ve got to go.”
---
19 Standard Turns have passed.
Cycling Spawners...2 Monsters Created
Cycling Resources...1 Resource Created
> QUIRK 5
Analyzing targeted room...Conditional Match DEAD_END_RESOURCE Found.
Transforming <span class="mu-s">SMALL RESOURCE</span> to <span class="mu-s">SMALL TREASURE</span>
Please enter a COMMAND
> DIG [ORIGIN NUMBER] [DESTINATION LETTER]
> SPAWNER [TARGET NUMBER]
> QUIRK [TARGET NUMBER]
> EMPOWER [TARGET NUMBER] [QUIRK | UNIT | ROOM] [DESTINATION LETTER]
> THEME [TARGET NUMBER] [THEME IDENTIFIER]
> SWITCH [TARGET NUMBER] [TARGET NUMBER] [ QUIRK | UNIT ]
> DELVE - WARNING, LOCKS CURRENT FLOOR
AVAILABLE THEMES: "Howling Blizzard", “Temple of Light”, “Basic Dungeon”
