Part 9: Shot in the Dark
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Originally Posted by N I G H T
I go for the weird bottles of mystical juices out of the backpack. Hopefully one will help regroup. Being alone is freaking me out, but no time to panic. I start uncapping one of the bottles but accidentally spill it all over the pieces of candy.
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"Hmm... well, hopefully this candy will make this mysterious potion thingy taste better," you say. You've begun saying all your thoughts out loud, it's a thing you're trying out. "I don't remember what color underwear I'm wearing. I wonder if people look the same in the dark or if their faces change. This new season of
Menewshan Idol is disappointing. I have to pee."
You pop the potion-coated candy into your mouth. It tastes like cabbage and strawberries and you're not sure which of those is the potion and which is the candy. Nalin
does flavor his own candies, after all; a cabbage candy wouldn't be unheard of.
You suck on the candy for a while before finally getting impatient and chomping down on it. Your teeth stick together as you chew.
"I wish I had brought chocolate," you say. "Chocolate can look like poop, though." You've really got to stop saying everything you think outloud, this is getting annoying. And gross.
Beginning to feel a little unusual, you shake the bottle that you spilled and hear that there's still some liquid in it.
"Why not? I already committed to consuming it, might as well go all the way through with it," you say and down the last bit of the potion. It tastes a bit like sour strawberries, answering the question of what flavor the candy was.
Oh, maybe that wasn't such a good idea... Your stomach starts to churn and your head swims. Not being able to see anything and getting quite dizzy, you quickly lose your equilibrium and tumble over. Something falls out of your backpack as you hit the ground and it knocks you in the back of your head. Careful not to move too quickly and upset your stomach even more, you reach out for the offending object. You feel a plastic cylinder in your hand with a raised square. Wait...
You push the square and an orange glow emanates from your hand. Yep, that's your pumpkin flashlight. You've had it with you this whole time. You must have stuck it in the bottom of your backpack instead of leaving it at Abel's house...
You carefully sit up and your stomach sloshes around uncomfortably. You point your flashlight around and survey the room you're in. You seem to be underground again. The room looks very similar to the underground rooms you encountered before - entirely made of dirt. There's a large metal contraption on the opposite side of the room. More interesting than either of things, however, is the amount of roots or vines everywhere. They're twisting all around the room, up the walls, through the metal thing, and are completely encasing what seems to be a door.
Oh... oh. That's not good. Your stomach churns and bubbles and you feel very, very wrong. Here it comes. Here it comes.
"BLUAARRRRGHUH!" You hurl on the floor. Ouch.
You notice that the vine-root-thing you hurled on begins to shrivel. The shriveling travels all around the room, wilting every inch of plant.
"Oh yeah," you say, continuing that thought narration thing, "Abel wanted those potions to battle the plant. I guess I just drank magical weed killer and then horked it all over this root thing." See, this is why you shouldn't go drinking strange potions. You just drank
magical weed killer! Think of your health!
Feeling much better now, you rise to your feet and open the newly freed door. Just outside the door is the shriveled remnants of what must have been a very large piece of plant. It's that big root you saw before. You're back in the long hallway in the little red person's... house... tunnel system... thing.
Well, you know what's ahead of you. The red person's bedroom, where they're probably still sleeping, and the staircase to the surface. You still have to find Abel and Mr. Mayor, and who knows if Lise, Tesel, Afrodonkey and Fluffy also need rescuing.
Where will you go?
