Space Opera - The Drip Chronicles

Originally posted on MSPA by Odinod.

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>Crap crap crap try climbing back up the chute, despite your obvious lack of ARMS.

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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>Crap crap crap try climbing back up the chute, despite your obvious lack of ARMS.

You try to right yourself and climb back up the CHUTE, but the ACID works too quickly and all you manage to do is wiggle yourself deeper into the digestive ROOT SYSTEM.

You decide that DIGESTING hurts like holy hell.

Originally posted on MSPA by Odinod.

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>Accept your fate. The GREEN-EYED MONSTER has defeated you. There can be only one.

Originally posted on MSPA by MultiFunctional.

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> Claw away at the monster's insides.

Wait, no arms.

> Kick the monster into submission?

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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> Claw away at the monster's insides.

Wait, no arms.

> Kick the monster into submission?

You futilely kick the GREEN-EYED MONSTER's innards with your remaining healthy foot.

>Accept your fate. The GREEN-EYED MONSTER has defeated you. There can be only one.

Your one regret is your failure to make peace with the SAVAGE FOLIAGE people.
...Well, and also dying in a pit of ACID within a the ROOT SYSTEM of a grotesque plant monster.

You give in to the darkness, ignoring the pain as the ACID eats away your flesh.


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You wake up some time later. You are lying in a pit, badly burned. The charred remains of a GREEN-EYED MONSTER surround you. Your trusty ZAP GUN is on the ground nearby. A PRIMITIVE VILLAGE is visible in the distance.

It is possible that the GREEN-EYED MONSTER burned to death after you shot it with your ZAP GUN. You suppose it is also possible that it lost the will to live after eating its only friend, and accordingly spontaneously combusted. Either way, your love was never meant to be.

(And with that I'm going to call it a night. Feel free to post additional suggestions; I look forward to reading them!)

Originally posted on MSPA by Odinod.

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>MOURN the death of your friend/attempted murderer and bury his remaining remains in the HOLE.

Originally posted on MSPA by MultiFunctional.

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> Go see if that TREE wants to kill you as well.

Originally posted on MSPA by BlueMendari.

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> Do a KIRBY DANCE to celebrate your survival.

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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You crawl painfully from the pit.


You have EVOLVED to LEVEL 2! All your wounds have been healed!

You have EVOLVED the following SKILLS:
TRANSMOGRIFY +1
XENOBOTANY +1
ZAPPIFICATION +2

Your HUG ANALOGUE has EVOLVED from AFFECTIONATE NUZZLE to VIGOROUS CUDDLE.
Your SKINCLENCH FACTOR has increased by 1.

>MOURN the death of your friend/attempted murderer and bury his remaining remains in the HOLE.

You are quite saddened by the loss of your only known enemy. You drop the GREEN-EYED MONSTER REMAINS in the PIT, kicking down the sides a bit in an attempt to bury them.

The GREEN-EYED MONSTER is no more. All that remains is a SAVAGE SAPLING.

> Do a KIRBY DANCE to celebrate your survival.

You do the rare and ancient Kirby Dance of Celebratory Mourning.

> Go see if that TREE wants to kill you as well.

You head off in the direction of the CRUDE TREE you saw earlier.

Upon closer inspection, it appears to be a PERFECTLY NORMAL TREE.

Originally posted on MSPA by MultiFunctional.

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> VIGOROUSLY CUDDLE the PERFECTLY NORMAL TREE.

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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> VIGOROUSLY CUDDLE the PERFECTLY NORMAL TREE.

You engage your newly evolved HUG ANALOGUE against the PERFECTLY NORMAL TREE.


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What's this? It seems your botanical intimacy has aroused the ire of a group of TREE DWELLING SAVAGES.

Originally posted on MSPA by MultiFunctional.

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> Aw, crud. Shoot them!

Originally posted on MSPA by Cactuseater.

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You've had enough of weird botanical life! Flee, carelessly dropping your ZAP GUN in your frightened panic.

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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> Aw, crud. Shoot them!

You are in no mood to deal civilly with these filthy, ignorant SAVAGES, what with their jumping around and kicking their leg-like appendages. You'd think they'd be more sensitive to the fact that you're in mourning.

You move to ZAPPIFY them with your...

Say, where is your ZAP GUN anyway?

Oh, you forgot. It's still over by the SAVAGE SAPLING.

Originally posted on MSPA by Cactuseater.

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Retrieve gun and observe sapling.

Originally posted on MSPA by CabbageHat.

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> Beware of falling TREE DWELLING SAVAGES!

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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Retrieve gun and observe sapling.

These SAVAGES can wait. You decide to go retrieve your ZAP GUN, and, while you're over there, give the SAVAGE SAPLING a closer look.

You pick up your ZAP GUN and observe the SAVAGE SAPLING.

You successfully make a XENOBOTANY skill check and realize that the SAPLING has grown a GREEN EYE.

Originally posted on MSPA by CabbageHat.

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> Cuddle fledgling plant monster. Better to forge a friendship now than get eaten again later!

Originally posted on MSPA by CaptainDHBSDRILLnus.

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>carry SAPLING in mouth to establish paternity

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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> Cuddle fledgling plant monster. Better to forge a friendship now than get eaten again later!

You decide that this would be an opportune moment to VIGOROUSLY CUDDLE the SAVAGE SAPLING.

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It appears that your CUDDLING has caused the creature to grow a suspicous-looking FRIENDSHIP BLOSSOM.

Originally posted on MSPA by Cactuseater.

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Declare everlasting love for the sappling and defend it from the approaching savages!

Originally posted on MSPA by MultiFunctional.

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> I have no idea how ZENOBOTANY works, but use it to check out the BLOSSOM.

Originally posted on MSPA by Odinod.

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Declare everlasting love for the sappling and defend it from the approaching savages!

^ This.

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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Declare everlasting love for the sappling and defend it from the approaching savages!

You will not let your newfound friendship be destroyed by this planet's SAVAGE BARBARIANS. You brandish your charred ZAP GUN threateningly at the approaching SAVAGES.



The SAVAGES scamper off toward the distant PRIMITIVE VILLAGE.

> I have no idea how ZENOBOTANY works, but use it to check out the BLOSSOM.

Now that your beloved SAPLING is safe from the SAVAGES, you attempt to make a XENOBOTANY skill check to study the newly grown FRIENDSHIP BLOSSOM.

You can't make heads or tails of this suspicious BLOSSOM. It seems to share traits from both the Rosoideae and Droseraceae families, but that's speaking in terms of plain old boring botany, not XENOBOTANY. You suspect that your XENOBOTANY skill is too low at this point, which sort of makes sense, seeing as your entire knowledge of the field comes from your firsthand experience of being ingested by deadly SAVAGE FOLIAGE.

Originally posted on MSPA by Odinod.

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>Ponder whether you should leave the SAVAGE SAPLING alone in this harsh, dangerous environment to go explore more.