>>5397145The massage continues, but you aren’t into it anymore. So that’s his big plan, huh? He’s gonna take all the magic you gathered and slurp it up?
“Ah, you finally figured it out!” Laughs TIM as you brush off the skeletal masseuse, “Saves me the trouble of explaining it–good thing, too… I know how much you HATE BIG WORDS!”
Tell me something else, then, you snap! How’d he know you were going to… to REFINE all of that energy anyways?
“I didn’t!” TIM answers with a laugh! “I’ll admit I was a little… IRKED… when you refused to become a thrall back in the FACTORY, but once I discussed the matter with your coworkers I began to taste opportunity on my lips!”
So THAT’S why you aren’t dead, huh? Because he messed up?
“Don’t sound so proud, Stanley–I had just woken up and you’re as pitiful as they come–were I to take my time examining you I would have recognized it almost immediately–I don’t know how you happened upon such a wondrous mutation, but once I knew what had fallen into my clutches, well…” A spider scurries out from a gap in his grinning yellow teeth. “I daresay you made me rethink my entire scheme, my dear. It’s not every day you find something so fantastically USEFUL!”
Pointing his fingers in your direction, you feel a fit of dizziness overwhelm you bef
hen you awaken, you find yourself face-down on the cold glass separating you from the mountain of BONES below the chamber.
“HA! And THAT too!” Hoots TIM as he slaps his knee with delight! “Not much of a hero when you can be turned on and off like a nightlight, now ARE you?”
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“NEVER GETS OLD!” Roars TIM as he falls into another cackling fit! “Bursting at the seams with WILD MAGIC and even comes with an OFF SWITCH–that’s RICH!”
>CONTD. 