The Further Pointless Adventures of Nopor Puss!

Originally posted on MSPA by Dragon Fogel.

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>Drop the strange crystal, key, and amulet down one of those holes.

You reason that these items could all potentially be useful, so it would be pointless to dispose of them.



So that's what you do!

>Crawl around in circles

You spend several hours doing this, because of how pointless it is. And you are most definitely crawling, not just facing upwards because somebody has no idea how to make a decent crawling sprite.

Attempt to go back in time in order to hug the wizard.

You're pretty sure it's impossible to travel back in time, and it's definitely impossible with anything you have on hand. So you'll have to give it a try!



After you inevitably fail, you attempt to hug the wizard anyways. Again, you are not simply facing upwards as an inferior alternative to editing a sprite to show a more detailed action.

Swallow fake amulet.

You threw it down the hole.



So you'll have to jump down after it!



You are now in some sort of ornate, but still hellish, throne room. For no reason at all, you conclude it belongs to the janitor.



There's the amulet! Now it's time to swallow it!



Your attempt to turn the fake amulet into a swallow fails completely. Just as you had hoped!

Level down.

You level down. Your stats are unchanged.

Play a haunting refrain on the strange crystal.

You use your incredible musical talents to perform a haunting drum solo using only the crystal and your bare hands.



You put the crystal back afterwards. Hopefully nobody was around to hear that. You want your talents to go to waste!

Eat strange crystal.

Well, you can't see any reason to, so you do.



But before you can get it to your mouth, something happens.



The crystal has vanished, and you have gained new skills. Well, that's not as pointless as you hoped. You resolve to only use your new skills for pointlessness.



However, your Point Meter considers this action worth 2 points. You've gotten over 10 points. As a penalty, your attack power goes up by 20. Drat!

> Place all of your belongings in the chest and curl into a ball nearby.

The chest isn't down here.




However, it seems that strange crystal has granted you the ability to fly.



You fly out of the pit.



Then you push the chest down the hole.



You jump down the pit again.



You put the key and fake amulet in the chest.



Then you make an unnecessary flight back up to get the cards, since you could have just put them in the chest before dropping it.



After a pointless game of 52-Pick Up, you put the cards in the chest. Then you reason that you belong to yourself, too.



You get in the chest, close it, and lock it from the inside. Then you curl into a ball inside the chest. This is definitely not another spriting cop-out.



And just as you finish doing that, somebody enters the room. It must be the janitor!



Well, now that there's somebody here, you'd better draw attention to yourself somehow. Otherwise, you'll have successfully hidden yourself, and that would have a point!