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[spideyfanone]

So since everyone got all bent outta shape about me wanting to turn high tech, slightly terroristy bombs on those stupid statues, I decided to keep busy for a little while. So this David Proud guy who made the statues (if he exists, and isn't a tentacled elder god or super-evil AI or something, because I'm really not ruling anything out right now and he's not actually around, just some blurby info from the gallery). I did some reading about the mine where he's supposed to be getting the statue-making stuff.

For one thing, there's really nothing in the geology around here that would make statue-quality stone come out of a coal mine. I made a diorama about it in sixth grade, so I just had to confirm that.

The mine was owned by the Tuning Towers family. I kinda figured that'd have something to do with Thundercorp, but not that I could find by using the cool superspy methods of Google and the library. It's in the park system now. I dunno, maybe bats live in it or something. And it's supposed to be haunted. Spooky stuff in forests usually is, but I don't know if that might be true, considering the weirdness. Plus the Native American tribe that lived there really didn't want to share and make it into a coal mine, and they didn't exactly give up because some old coal baron dudes asked nicely. So that's creepy.

Private to Bakura

For being transformed into a crocodile:
I am a crocodile immersed in dread. I am a crocodile who takes by robbery. I am the great and mighty fish-like being who is in the Bitter Lakes. I am the Lord of those who bow down in Letopolis.
Found it! ...I wanna be a crocodile.

Comments

[spideyfanone]

I know I hate it when that happens.

[shiromadoushi]

Just chilling in Osirus's fields or whatever and then suddenly your arm falls off because the beetles claimed it in the name of Beetletopia. Totally cramps your style.

[spideyfanone]

It might be a little easier to ask your family to spray the sarcophagus with raid once in a while. But less cool.

[shiromadoushi]

And that only lasts as long as anyone remembers to keep reapplying. Mummies last a long time after all.

[spideyfanone]

Maybe a little clay statue of a can of bugspray. That stuff becomes real in the afterlife, right? If my last visit to the Egypt exhibit holds.

[shiromadoushi]

Yeah, it should! And you can put the chant on the can for maximum effectiveness!

[spideyfanone]

I wonder if play-doh is okay. It does get a little crumby when it dries out.

[shiromadoushi]

Better get one of the clays you bake. A can of raid with a crumbling side would be worse than nothing, I'd think.

[spideyfanone]

And all the mummy eating ghost beetles would laugh at me.

[shiromadoushi]

Seriously.


So. Gonna go check out the haunted mine?

[spideyfanone]

Kinda have to, right? Best case scenario it's got cool secrets that we're supposed to find. Worse case, it's a trap, I guess. Middle case it's a red herring and there's still a cool abandoned mineshaft full of danger and creepy crawlies.

[shiromadoushi]

Middle case sounds pretty awesome, not gonna lie. And we can prepare for it being a trap!


Hey, how far out of sight is this place anyway?

[spideyfanone]

I'd be pretty hard to trap, anyway. You should try and get that going through wall thing down, too.

And it can't be that hard to sneak into. They have barriers and I guess people get caught going in sometimes. Because, y'know, cool cave.

[shiromadoushi]

That was what I was thinking, yeah! I just don't want anyone to see him is the worry cause he's pretty tall. Since he goes through anything, he can go on ahead and tell is if there's traps.

[spideyfanone]

Yeah, that'll help with not dying. Since if it's a trap, they'll at least have to leave trap stuff behind for us to look at.

[shiromadoushi]

Yeah. And I'm pretty sure Diabound is used to looking out for that sort of stuff too.

[spideyfanone]

He comes preprogramed? That's handy. You got all the cool stuff.

[shiromadoushi]

I wouldn't say it's anything like that! But those bastard priests did say I was a thief, so to come from the soul of a thief in the time of the pharaoh, it would make sense, right?

And hell, for a thief to come up before the pharaoh like that, I wouldn't be surprised if I was a tomb robber as well. So he'd have experience with that sort of thing, right?

[spideyfanone]

And all the really boss thieves have really cool summonable gods. Life should always be this much like a video game.

[shiromadoushi]

Seriously.

Between Diabound, you being able to teleport and Mr. Lineface who can use ice powers, we totally have the makings of an epic party.

[spideyfanone]

We might want a healer. Look out for somebody with a staff.

[shiromadoushi]

Yeah, def. gotta get one of those. Someone should put an ad out for a cleric.

[spideyfanone]

Maybe you can pick up a second class if your summoned entity can cover the combat and help with the sneakery.

[shiromadoushi]

That'd be pretty epic if I could! Though I'd wanna get Diabound leveled up first. Better not half ass it.

[spideyfanone]

I can cover rogue and whatever the tech class is in this game.