Perhaps Gunther was singing about
penguins in this video.
It's been too long since I've gotten to
one of these, but I've been working like a fiend at other stuff
lately, hopefully to some good end. So, I suppose it's a good thing
that this one wound up taking place at a beach.
I wasn't quite sure which artifact I
was going to use when I first sat down to get started on this issue,
so I spent a minute cycling through the ones I had and settled on the
Torch of Coral. This item has to be used on a section of the map
that's by water, which makes sense, since this is a beach dungeon,
after all. It generates a place called Medora Beach, which is a
nice, tropical place, full of palm trees and sand crabs. I'd make a
bad joke about this place giving me crabs, but I somehow remember
there being some sort of reward for either avoiding all the crabs or
stepping on them all, and I can't remember which. Either way, I only
hit three of them that I know of, because there were palm trees in
the foreground, blocking part of the play area, which means that I
may have got more and not know. It's those trees that are at least
partly responsible for my taking out two before I even really knew
they were there.
Anyway, the first big story here
involves David the Pirate Penguin and his feathery girlfriend
Valerie. It seems this young couple is indeed very much in love and
is considering tying the knot. At first, David wants to go back to
the pirate ship with the Walrus Captain and the other penguins. But
then Valerie hints at having laid an egg, with the implication that
it's his. Beyond that it's an excuse for the hero to go running
around on the beach, beating up monsters while trying to avoid as
many non-enemy crabs as he can, I'm not exactly sure what that has to
do with him. But anyway, once Valerie hints at her egg, she goes
running off with David in hot pursuit.
For sake of a mini-game that I don't
really understand and love that I've really got only marginal
interest in, I guess I've gotta go after them. After a bit of beach
combing and spelunking, all while trying to avoid sand crabs, I met
up with the quest's boss, a giant sand crab that could use sleep and
lightning magic. It managed to hit me with a little of each, but I
still managed to beat the shit out of it on my own with little or no
trouble. And there was some decent XP and Lucre to be had after as
well.
After the giant crab goes down, the
hero finally catches up with David and Valerie, this time coming at
things from the opposite angle. David says he's ready to give up
being a pirate so he can be with Valerie and his egg, but Valerie
tells him to go live out his dream for her and that she'll raise the
egg herself. David promises to come back after beating all the
monsters, even if it takes him a hundred years. At the end, I talked
to her and she said essentially the same thing as before, but gave me
an artifact called the Rusty Anchor. I think that one's a sunken
pirate ship, but we'll see about that later.
Back at the homestead, I had some stuff
ready on the tree. The tree gave me a Spiny Seed when I talked to
it, and I pulled another Boarmellon off it, as well as a Lillipod,
which was something we saw in the Jungle, I believe, and a
Needlelettice, which sounds like it would be awful in a salad.
I think I'm starting to figure
something out about the seeds the tree gives us. I do believe it
gives us a new one every time three fruits are ready to go. That's
just a passing observation, though. Don't quote me on that.
From here, I'm not exactly sure where
I'm gonna go in this game. I guess you'll know as soon as I do.
What I can say for sure at this point is that I'm hoping to start
getting these closer together again. I need to relax more, and
believe it or not, doing this actually does help me relax. Well,
writing in general does that, but combining it with game time seems
to make it better.
Anyway, be looking for another Text
Play issue soon. Sometime later this week, with any luck. And stay
tuned for a little gaming news, too. See you then, folks!
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