The Dream Ending

As the fight starts Cherchiel hucks her spear at him and it pierces immediately through his chest and the back of his chair. This however does not in fact end the fight. His body is already dead and getting a spear launched through his body is barely even upsetting for the undead mage. It does however, surprise him enough that he loses concentration and only regains enough concentration to summon his flames by the time Yulia has cast Blizzard which promptly puts them out again. The group easily reach him and Cherchiel uses her shield to knock him over then bash him repeatedly until his decrepit corpse is nothing, but dust.

"Is he actually dead now?" Isalia asks looking at the dusty remains. There is actually one thing left among the remains, a small tarnished silver ring. Yulia takes it cautiously and places it in her pack.

"I don't hear him... But I guess he could just not be saying anything," Cherchiel responds.

"Well for now we'll assume he's dead. Let's see about trying to get some of these people back home," Yulia says. The group move over to the **** people which do indeed seem to be the captured explorers. Cherchiel can lift one in each hand and so they take three of them back, Cherchiel carrying two and Isalia and Yulia carrying a third together. When they arrive back at Aresque the town is in a panic. It takes a bit for the group to get answers. All the people in town who had been mimics suddenly just vanished and without the others knowing they had been mimics, their sudden disappearance had caused a panic.

Yulia et al spend the next little while trying to explain to everyone what happened and arranging for people to head into the dream and collect a group of Aresque townspeople to go and get the remaining **** townspeople.

As they go with the group to help collect the remaining townspeople, they stop and approach the strange pit. As soon as they get close a horrible smell hits them. Rot and **** emanates from the hole. They all back away, coughing and covering their noses, "ugh that's awful what is that?" Yulia yells.

"I... have a theory," Isalia states, "the position of the pit is... well near the **** people, if we imagine the layout is roughly the same just smaller, then the pit is likely... the ascent..." she explains.

"The ascent is a pit that reeks of ****?" Yulia asks confused.

"Some of the mimics in town must have been seen to die at some point. I mean explorers don't have an amazing life expectancy and once someone had been seen to die, well they wouldn't be much use as someone to mimic, but you can't release them so..." Isalia continues, looking more and more upset as she explains.

"When people couldn't be mimicked anymore they stopped being useful and... Were discarded by being thrown into the pit," Cherchiel finishes.

"Probably after having their minds completely devoured I imagine..." Isalia adds.

"That's horrific!" Yulia exclaims.

"It is just a theory, but... It seems most likely," Isalia continues.

"I'd rather not think about it anymore. Let's just continue helping and then put the entirety of the dream path behind us," Yulia says and the four women agree.

Soon all the people have been brought back to Aresque and now there's just waiting for them to wake up. The group leave that to the people however as they go to speak with Liloth. Liloth is waiting for them.

"So, he's finally gone then it seems," she says sounding relieved.

"Indeed," Yulia responds.

"Then I guess there's no reason to keep this safely hidden away anymore," Liloth says and produces a familiar black book and hands it over.

"Is... Are you giving us Puppet?" Yulia asks as she takes the book, looking it over and then looking at Liloth with shock.

"You earned it and besides, I only took it away because I knew there was some dark plan for it that would harm my beloved Drow and Driders and that plan seems to have been foiled now, there's no reason not to let you have it. Go forth and use my spell to achieve your ends. Be sure to think about me when you do!" she explains cheerfully.

Yulia holds the book and for the moment puts it away, "well... thanks I guess. Hopefully the Deep will thrive now with the Mindflayers and the Old Mind gone," Yulia says.

"Indeed, I have not forgotten that you wanted my help with the Spiders either. I am still willing to help you and will be waiting for you when you're ready to progress," she says and vanishes. The group head to Isalia's for a short rest as they contemplate if there's anything left for them to do before they go on ahead.

Combat: The Old Mind

Difficulty: 10

Powerful Magical Abilities + 10

Undead +10

Literally just chucking a fucking spear through him -100

Everything Else -overkill

Final Difficulty: None

Yulia's roll: Who Cares?

Result: Could not possibly imagine how this fight is going to turn out... Truly a fight for the ages >.> (Note: I did in fact roll and do the proper calculations for this, but it was indeed a complete sweep, so I thought this was funnier and gave just about as much useful information as the full calculations would have)

(Health: 100%

Mana: 50%

Equipment: Ceramic Beaked Mask, Reinforced Monastic Scapular, standard bra, Standard Panties, 3 poison gas grenades, 3 healing kits, 1 syringe of poison, 1 syringe of adrenaline, 1 syringe of poison antidote, 1 sewing kit, 1 vial of strong aerosolizing aphrodisiac, 8 days worth of rations, 3 two liter water jug, 1 health potion, 7 mana potions, A boar mask, 4 vials of sticky white liquid, Ornate Rapier (-3), 4 arrows, Quiver, God's Favour (Halo. Prevent **** one time), 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Apples), Bone Spear (-1), Ash's Quiver, 6 charm arrows, Smithing Ingredients (6 steel ingots), 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Vegetables), Grenade Launcher, Empty Bandolier, Silver Staff (-2 added to the effect of all spells), Spidersilk gown, Smithing Ingredients (1 silver ingot), 13 silver throwing knives, twenty feet of Spidersilk rope, 1 sack of Cooking Ingredients (Fish), an Onahole, a shard of Illustone, A tarnished Silver Ring, A Demonic Spellbook (Puppet?).

Spells known: Great Heal (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 25%)

Great Cure (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 15%)

Energize (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 25%)

Icicle (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 15%)

Unlock (Lvl 1, Unmastered, Cost: 15%)

Repair (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 5%-20% depending on factors)

Undermine (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 25%).

Life Drain (lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 2% per 1 Hp healed)

Blizzard (Mastered, cost: 5%)

Fetish: Bondage Rank: 2, Masochism Rank: 1, Lesbian rank: 1, Submission Rank: 1, Incubating Rank: 1, Large Insertions Rank: 1

Status Effect: Permanent increase to physical attribute. Combat level raised to medium

Atrophied: Permanent Decrease to Physical Attribute. Combat Level lowered to weak. (Countered previous Permanent Increase)

Psychosexual Break: In order to deal with her trauma, Yulia has begun to subconsciously fetishize her experiences.

Deflowered: Virginity Lost, sexual experience changed to: Inexperienced, non-virgin.

Marked by The Abyss: Found You.

Trauma Rank 1 : Costs of all spells doubled for the remainder of the floor. (Caused by first impregnation)

Mind Shattered: Max Mana halved for the remainder of this floor.

Companion: Cherchiel, Goma, Martin, Isalia.

Cherchiel Equipment: Ultra Durable Spear( -5, -10 with Boar Mask), Ultra Durable Shield (-5, -10 with Boar Mask), Solanium Reinforced Bodysuit (add -1 to all physical actions).

Cherchiel Status Effect: Divine Grace. Combat Level raised to High

Goma Equipment: Runed Dagger (-2, -5 with boar mask), Hunting Horn (-2 for each ally affected), Reinforced and Nethicite Augmented Thick Hide Outfit (Negate most physical damage)

Goma Mana: 50%

Goma spells known: Heal (Mastered, 15%)

Isalia Equipment: Isalia's Sword (-3), Isalia's Shield (-3), Black Leather Armor

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