>>5397147Still reeling from several reboots, you spit another question at the lich: Why?
“Hmm?” Asks TIM as he cups a hand to where his ear used to be, “Speak up, fool, I can’t hear you when you mumble, y’know! Kids these days…”
WHY, you repeat! What does he gain from trying to take over the whole world like this!? I mean, it’d be an improvement here in CALIFORNIA, but the rest of the world!? He could have been a hero with all of his abilities!
The lich cranes himself forward and looms over your prone form with malice in his glowing eye! “Why?” He echoes in disbelief, “Why NOT!? Look at all the POWER you pilfered from me, Stanley–do… do you REALLY think you’d have gotten this far without them? With ONE!?”
I mean, you mutter as you scratch the back of your head, you HAVE been rolling pretty well an-
“Foolishness, Stanley… FOOLISHNESS!” Booms TIM as he leans forward even more! “You mortals feud over the pettiest of reasons: riches, land, gods, even IDEAS! While my peers were cut down by a band of gaudy-armored savages over the promise of land, I bettered myself! When their ‘grand’ empire fell, I achieved IMMORTALITY!”
Rising once more from his throne, TIM raises both hands into the air and sends lighting crackling across the room! “While self-proclaimed ‘wise men’ and ‘philosophers’ struggled to find meaning in their pitiful lives, my meaning was clear: I had conquered DEATH ITSELF, and as I stepped over his ragged corpse, I laid my unclouded eyes on the Earth for the first time… and I knew it was MINE for the taking!”
The lich makes a grand gesture around the chamber as you hear the wind howling outside! “With the power I retrieve from your bones, I shall sweep across the land like the light of the sun: purifying all I see with my enlightened judgment!”
The room quakes around you as you feel yourself slowly float above the ground!
“With my divine power I will reshape this vile place… molding it like clay into a land suitable for MY greatness! Long have I waited, Stanley, but at long last… the time is NIGH!”
Dropping you to the floor like an old toy, a hollow laugh escapes TIM’S nonexistent throat as he smiles at you. “And you, my dear… you just put me AHEAD of schedule. Some HERO you turned out to be, hm?”
Speaking of, you stammer, still shaking off the lich’s speech, didn’t he get beaten before? You could almost swear you saw some kind of SIGIL-
In an instant both you and Lil’ Stanley are hurtling towards the ceiling!
>CONTD.