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Chapter 11

Do you run into trouble? Where do you go?

No. A little place you know off a 'secret' tunnel.

You head along the borders of the level out to another 'secret' tunnel you are aware of, one installed in the last patch along with several others, and the special location inside it. It's supposed to be an 'Easter Egg' for the 'heroes', a tiny fully functional and stocked but un-staffed inn inside the crypt, where they can kick back in safety and share a few stories and brews and perhaps get some shut eye, but you discovered it long before any of them did, and have used it as a safe zone to plan strategy and converse with some of the other sapient monsters on this level.

These days it IS in point of fact staffed, but not by people the 'heroes' would want serving them drinks. A few of the 'un-commanded' wandering ghouls that you have run into and brought there to talk and learn more about what monsters they have seen on this level liked the place so much that whenever they spawn they go there now, and for the sake of amusement run the place as an actual inn. Most of the monsters in the crypt cant even actually sleep, but since until heroes enter the main room the supplies restock themselves the inn does pretty brisk business supplying food and **** to you and yours. It's all just a 'game with a game' though, because whenever Cassowary's Crypt resets there go all their profits. The inn doesn't even have a name, the denizens of the dungeon not having much use for them as they mostly don't have one themselves, but the first thing they do whenever they show up for work is take the jar of white paint out of the inn's supply closet and put a white hand print on the front door.


When you get to the door to the inn you are glad to see the hand print and that the door hasn't been kicked in, like the 'heroes' almost always do when they find the place. It's only happened about a dozen times but it's getting more and more frequent as the secret gets out. You rap the code you've established with the staff on the door and the bar is removed, allowing you and what's left of the pack inside.

"PL! Hi, how you been? You haven't been by in four or five- Great gods, what the hell happened to your fifth?!" The barkeep Ghoul: Z2#14 starts out in a fairly standard greeting before he notices your fifth pack member's missing left arm.

"Decided to go hunting, sprung an ambush on some noobs and he got trashed by a Levin Bolt." You say, smiling.

"That doesn't SOUND like good news..." The barkeep says noticing your smile, "Two pack members down, one ****, and one missing an arm, why the grin?" He asks pulling out a chair, you seem to be the only patrons right now.

"It's actually three pack members down and one missing an arm: the grin," you say gesturing for the other pack members to sit, "is two fold, one, I leveled, two," You smack Jenna's ass where she hangs like a sack on your shoulder, "I managed to TURN one!" You crow triumphantly.

The barkeep's mouth hangs open in astonishment. "A level up AND a turn? This is a seriously banner day! Round for the house!" He cries going behind the bar and getting down a bottle of bourbon and some shot glasses. "To victories big and small!" he says and you all clink glasses and down the shot.

After you toast he looks you over appraisingly. "So, I guess your here wanting a room where she can sleep it off in relative safety, huh?"

"That's the plan yea." You allow.

"You know that will be a gold piece, right?" He says, fully aware your spawn funds do not include enough coin to cover that.

"You know that's highway robbery, don't you?" You spar back, playing along, knowing, as he can only suspect, that the cash from the adventurers MORE than covers it.

"Hey, our rooms are the only thing that is actually limited in it's supply right now, but I tell you what, you pay for the room I will throw in a celebratory breakfast for her when she wakes up, on the house." The Barkeep says, pleased that you are playing along.

"No good, we butchered her old friends before we left them lie, but tell you what, make it another round of bourbon to celebrate and you've got a deal."

"Tell YOU what, give me one of the loins and the whole things on the house, otherwise no deal!" He says mouth watering.

While ghouls appreciate a good raw steak, the meat of sapient creatures always tastes better, and you curse yourself for mentioning you had it.

Give the Barkeep what he's asking for, or the issue?

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