Waking up after getting hit in the head with a door is always a tireseome experience. First you have to get your bearings (how did you fall, did you smash anything on the way down, etc etc), then you have that horrible head pain from where the impact occurs (that usually lasts a couple hours, really bad hits can last a few days). Then you have to deal with whatever knocked you out (rock creature, precariously placed package, Nidget that last one several times). Its become old hat for me, but at the same time I still have things that cause me to pause after recovering from a bump on the head.
Take for instance this sewer adventure, I came to what felt like a few minutes past getting knocked out. I noticed there were a couple dead bodies of guards near my feet, probably killed by Therod. I could hear shouting coming from down the hallway, so I stumbled towards it. As I rounded the corner I came into what looked more like a central chamber, along the walls were more of those damned spider eggs, corpses underneath them probably for the little monsters to eat when they woke up, and a gigantic spider was fighting Therod and Nidget in the middle.
Nidget was on its back pounding it with his fists and doing absolutely nothing. Therod was using what looked like Jenkins arm and a sword to try and keep the huge fangs from impaling her (how did I know it was Jenkins arm you ask? His armless body laying near by). I was tempted at first to just believe this was some kind of impact related fantasy (it would sadly not be my first) but knowing what I had come from prior to being knocked out this seemed pretty real. My second instinct was to go "Well good luck with that" and leave, but per my speech prior to getting knocked out I was a problem solver, and a gigantic spider with a bunch of her young in the sewers of the town I lived in was a huge freaking problem.
Fire, fire was the solution (it truely is the cure to just about everything, well aside from fires and fire monsters, but you know the first one has a counter in water and we were in a sewer, and the second thing doesn't happen that often, shit wait by me writing that it means I'm destined now to deal with more fire monsters, damn you universe). I burned the eggs, I burned the spider creature, I even burned some bodies because when you're on a roll you uhhh set fire to more things. The smell was pretty bad, but it was the sewers so its not like it was a flowery field to begin with. Nidget and Therod were totally appreciative of my efforts, and by that I mean they cursed me for almost setting them both on fire, and the day was won.
The tax division hired a new guy to collect property taxes, Therod thanked me for my efforts by raiding my store looking for magical objecst and found nothing, and Nidget kept being an annoying little jerk. Tada life went back to normal. At least we didn't have to deal with spider monters for a little bit. And thats always a good thing to right down in any daily journal "No spider monsters today" in fact I'll start marking that down more often!
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