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Kerastrina continued to follow her guide, constantly recovering from the mental manipulation, and having it immediately renewed by the blood that still soaked her. Like this, her senses being filled with experiences that she could hardly determine as being either real or fake, she walked around in circles. This went on until one of the stones, that jutted up from the ground, turned to her and welcomed her back. She was wise enough to realize that stones could not talk, but that did not take away from the stones point, she had met this rock before. She looked up, and saw the mother rock, who waved at her. She halted the guide and took a few steps backwards with her hostages. Her suspicion was correct this had been the mouth of a great beast last time, but she was sure she recognized the shape of those friendly teeth/rocks. Her suspicions were all but confirmed when the mushrooms head twisted around and said in a deep voice we have been tricking you.
With a quick flick of her wrist she sliced the guides throat, and watched as a horde of mushrooms came out with large bouncy steps and goofy expressions on their faces(which she was eighty percent sure they did not have when she last saw them). She shoved the dying body at them yelling,
"I don't like being lied to, you could have made this so much easier."
Kera immediately swapped her dagger for a throwing knife, and threw it, continuously doing so as though it were just one fluid motion. With her other hand she released the child just enough to slam him on the head with the butt of her second dagger, knocking him to the ground, before that hand joined in. She watched in almost fascination as flowers, an insects, even a double rainbow, as well as a hawk came out of two. These were humanoids unlike those trolls these did not bare skulls like helmets, merely odd bits of armour, and so this was much more to her liking. She soon noticed that the shrooms were growing, but she just as fast realized they were just getting closer. Smart as ever she used this knowledge to stab them, unfortunately realizing that a spear is a touch longer than a dagger when she found that the now dead fungus' spear was now stuck in her shoulder. The walking puffballs at the very least did think better of continuing the attack, as they retreated carrying the useless guide.
As Kera gathered her knives minus the ones who insulted her, decided they like sheathing themselves in fungal heads better, and the ones that melted when she tried to pull them free, she began to think: how much time had she wasted here? Too long! The trickster might have already escaped. Kerastrina grabbed the child and began sprinting for the exit, barely allowing her paranoia to slow her, she didn't care if it was illusion or real anymore, it tried to get too close to her it was going to get stabbed. Every corner, or gap in the wall, stabbed. The room full of mushroom people in between her and the outside, threats to stab. As she was about to step into the exiting hallway though she paused. Although she needed to get out, and she knew it well, she still thought someone had to let them know how dumb they handled this situation,
"I really just wanted the compass, and you could have handed it over, and no one would have been hurt, but NO! You just wanted everyone to die."
She drew nearer to the exit, but was quite annoyed at all of what had happed, and was feeling a bit spiteful. Sickeningly Kerastrina remembered how flammable the fungus that grew on trees were, and was reminded of the room they stood in's special contents, besides the mushrooms that is. She threw the child at the crowed, and dropped a lit match before running down the rest of the hallway emptying two pouches, a pocket of ball bearings, soon followed by a pouch of caltrops. She ignored whether or not the caltrops were actually spiders or not, she really needed to move it now.
Once she had exited the basement she quickly made her way up. She may have not received the compass at this time, but the game was not over yet. She could still get it after she was done up here, or even after the game. Kera suddenly paused, were all the trolls dead just then? Nah, that would have been impossible. Her suspicions that is was just a hallucination was confirmed when she entered a room, to see a large dance going on consisting of many people, but only two forms. Kera looked to the golem that observed for answers, questioning it while preparing knives for throwing,
"Ummm, could you point out the real ones real quick?"
With a quick flick of her wrist she sliced the guides throat, and watched as a horde of mushrooms came out with large bouncy steps and goofy expressions on their faces(which she was eighty percent sure they did not have when she last saw them). She shoved the dying body at them yelling,
"I don't like being lied to, you could have made this so much easier."
Kera immediately swapped her dagger for a throwing knife, and threw it, continuously doing so as though it were just one fluid motion. With her other hand she released the child just enough to slam him on the head with the butt of her second dagger, knocking him to the ground, before that hand joined in. She watched in almost fascination as flowers, an insects, even a double rainbow, as well as a hawk came out of two. These were humanoids unlike those trolls these did not bare skulls like helmets, merely odd bits of armour, and so this was much more to her liking. She soon noticed that the shrooms were growing, but she just as fast realized they were just getting closer. Smart as ever she used this knowledge to stab them, unfortunately realizing that a spear is a touch longer than a dagger when she found that the now dead fungus' spear was now stuck in her shoulder. The walking puffballs at the very least did think better of continuing the attack, as they retreated carrying the useless guide.
As Kera gathered her knives minus the ones who insulted her, decided they like sheathing themselves in fungal heads better, and the ones that melted when she tried to pull them free, she began to think: how much time had she wasted here? Too long! The trickster might have already escaped. Kerastrina grabbed the child and began sprinting for the exit, barely allowing her paranoia to slow her, she didn't care if it was illusion or real anymore, it tried to get too close to her it was going to get stabbed. Every corner, or gap in the wall, stabbed. The room full of mushroom people in between her and the outside, threats to stab. As she was about to step into the exiting hallway though she paused. Although she needed to get out, and she knew it well, she still thought someone had to let them know how dumb they handled this situation,
"I really just wanted the compass, and you could have handed it over, and no one would have been hurt, but NO! You just wanted everyone to die."
She drew nearer to the exit, but was quite annoyed at all of what had happed, and was feeling a bit spiteful. Sickeningly Kerastrina remembered how flammable the fungus that grew on trees were, and was reminded of the room they stood in's special contents, besides the mushrooms that is. She threw the child at the crowed, and dropped a lit match before running down the rest of the hallway emptying two pouches, a pocket of ball bearings, soon followed by a pouch of caltrops. She ignored whether or not the caltrops were actually spiders or not, she really needed to move it now.
Once she had exited the basement she quickly made her way up. She may have not received the compass at this time, but the game was not over yet. She could still get it after she was done up here, or even after the game. Kera suddenly paused, were all the trolls dead just then? Nah, that would have been impossible. Her suspicions that is was just a hallucination was confirmed when she entered a room, to see a large dance going on consisting of many people, but only two forms. Kera looked to the golem that observed for answers, questioning it while preparing knives for throwing,
"Ummm, could you point out the real ones real quick?"