RE: Monster Island: Explore - Act 1
01-16-2018, 06:46 AM
Questions race through your mind, you stutter and start before she looks at you with an unusually surprised face.
"Wait, don't tell me you've never seen a Pocket before? Oh, wow... You really are lost, huh? Alright, well, we can go back up top for a bit so you don't freak out too much."
She halts her work, throwing the implement up towards the roof where it lands in a pool of water hanging completely upside down. Gravity doesn't seem to apply here, to some extent at least.
You're taken back outside by Frei, as she leaps up the many feet between the shack and the portal, and suddenly with another wave of dizziness you are back on your original plane.
You vomit immediately.
"Aw... There there buddy."
She hands you a drink and you sip at it slowly. It cures your nausea in an instant, even making you feel lighter than before.
"Hehe, that there's ambrosia. Cures the side-effects of portals, and helps you stay healthy! Not a lot around though, so don't drink it all!"
She snatches it from your grasp as you almost take another sip.
Just then, a figure bursts into the house. They appear to be a tall, broad figure, wearing a clean black suit with incredibly large shoulders, a tie with an odd symbol that seems to depict an eye within a hand, and they have three cartoonishly large gloves.
One for each hand, and one covering their entire head. The head glove's fingers flop around with any slight movement, but the large cyclopean eye looks at you with a paralyzing stare.
"Hello there. You are Frei, correct?" They dismissively motion at Frei.
"Yeah yeah that's me. What do you want?" Her voice seems to take on a newfound aggressiveness towards this strange figure.
"You have not issued your scheduled payment."
Frei stands in silence, clenching her fists. A cold breeze blows in.
"Very well. I will close off Pocket access from now on the-"
"NO! P-Please wait, I can pay you, I just need to finish one last job, and then I-I'll have the payment, I swear." Sweat runs down her brow.
The figure stands in silence, before adjusting their tie and turning their back to you. "Very well then. I will return in 3 days time."
As he says this, a black cloud engulfs him from beneath, and he disappears.
Frei falls to the floor, defeated. You can see the figure from before, now. He's an abnormally normal human man, seemingly in his mid-thirties, wearing a bedraggled suit. He puts his phone away, and looks you dead in the eyes through the now-open door.
"...What are you doing here?"
Is what you think he tried to say, before the Snapjaw took a large bite out of his torso, causing him to collapse, dead. Now it is the one staring you down, and it is much more foreboding.
Still bearing a large bruise on its head, it roars, and charges towards the house, breaking the doorframe and towering over you and Frei in the enclosed space.
"Come on, seriously?"
Frei is now standing beside you, with a two-handed sledgehammer in her hands. It seems to be an extended form of her traditional blacksmith's one.
-BATTLE... CONTINUE?-
Bumble:
Status - CONFUSED
Frei:
Status - EXHAUSTED
Snapjaw:
Status - BRUISED, ENRAGED
"Wait, don't tell me you've never seen a Pocket before? Oh, wow... You really are lost, huh? Alright, well, we can go back up top for a bit so you don't freak out too much."
She halts her work, throwing the implement up towards the roof where it lands in a pool of water hanging completely upside down. Gravity doesn't seem to apply here, to some extent at least.
You're taken back outside by Frei, as she leaps up the many feet between the shack and the portal, and suddenly with another wave of dizziness you are back on your original plane.
You vomit immediately.
"Aw... There there buddy."
She hands you a drink and you sip at it slowly. It cures your nausea in an instant, even making you feel lighter than before.
"Hehe, that there's ambrosia. Cures the side-effects of portals, and helps you stay healthy! Not a lot around though, so don't drink it all!"
She snatches it from your grasp as you almost take another sip.
Just then, a figure bursts into the house. They appear to be a tall, broad figure, wearing a clean black suit with incredibly large shoulders, a tie with an odd symbol that seems to depict an eye within a hand, and they have three cartoonishly large gloves.
One for each hand, and one covering their entire head. The head glove's fingers flop around with any slight movement, but the large cyclopean eye looks at you with a paralyzing stare.
"Hello there. You are Frei, correct?" They dismissively motion at Frei.
"Yeah yeah that's me. What do you want?" Her voice seems to take on a newfound aggressiveness towards this strange figure.
"You have not issued your scheduled payment."
Frei stands in silence, clenching her fists. A cold breeze blows in.
"Very well. I will close off Pocket access from now on the-"
"NO! P-Please wait, I can pay you, I just need to finish one last job, and then I-I'll have the payment, I swear." Sweat runs down her brow.
The figure stands in silence, before adjusting their tie and turning their back to you. "Very well then. I will return in 3 days time."
As he says this, a black cloud engulfs him from beneath, and he disappears.
Frei falls to the floor, defeated. You can see the figure from before, now. He's an abnormally normal human man, seemingly in his mid-thirties, wearing a bedraggled suit. He puts his phone away, and looks you dead in the eyes through the now-open door.
"...What are you doing here?"
Is what you think he tried to say, before the Snapjaw took a large bite out of his torso, causing him to collapse, dead. Now it is the one staring you down, and it is much more foreboding.
Still bearing a large bruise on its head, it roars, and charges towards the house, breaking the doorframe and towering over you and Frei in the enclosed space.
"Come on, seriously?"
Frei is now standing beside you, with a two-handed sledgehammer in her hands. It seems to be an extended form of her traditional blacksmith's one.
-BATTLE... CONTINUE?-
Bumble:
Status - CONFUSED
Frei:
Status - EXHAUSTED
Snapjaw:
Status - BRUISED, ENRAGED
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