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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chronosome" data-source="post: 500857" data-attributes="member: 274">Oh, the Monsters You'll Slay!!!Oh, the monsters you'll slay!Congratulations!Today is your day.You're off to the dungeon!To pillage and slay!You have feats you performYou have skills in on your sheetYou can cast spells of magicAnd have foes to defeat!You're not on your own.  There's your party in tow.And together you'll venture to the warrens below.You'll look up and down hallways.  Look 'em over with care.About some you will say, "There's no treasure down there."With those feats you perform and those skills on your sheet,You're too smart to settle for non-magical treats.And you may not find muchLoot on the first floor.In that case, of course,You'll descend where there's more.It's darker down thereAt the foot of the stairs...Down there Things are hungryAnd frequently areFor Heros as foolishAnd brave as you are.And when Things spring an ambushDon't worry.  Don't stew.Just carve through their necksWith your vorpal plus two.OH!THE MONSTERS YOU'LL SLAY!You'll carve them all up!You'll send them to Hells!You'll flank them and sneak themAnd destroy with your spells.You won't fall disabled, because you have that Item.The one that drains life from those Things as you fight 'em.Whenever you hit, you'll become even stronger.Whenever you kill, you will live even longer.Except when you can't.Because, this time, you shan't...I'm delighted to say soand, Hero, it's truethat something quite Evilhas happened to you.You pilfered that Itemfrom the Temple of Zor.Now your essence is mineYour essence...and more.As you fall to cold stoneAnd feel that cold sting,My dark, umbral magicHas created a Thing.And as you rise again,You're in for a treat.For now it's your partyWho will taste the defeat.You will chase them to levels where the paths are not clear.You will see them in shadows.  And feed from their fear.In places befouled by the Evil of Zor!Do they dare to fight back?  Do they dare to steal more!?How far can they run?  Do they know the right lore?And IF they beseech you to lay down your blade...To holster your vorpal...  To end your crusade...Or reclaim your essence, to wrest it from me?Simple, it's not, I'm afraid you will see,For the Hero-now-Thing to betray my decree!You can get so confusedthat your soul will go madin torment to think of companions you had...Liars, and cheaters, who've made you do badto the Things of my dungeon--and more you shall add.You SHALL add......your friends to my Things.Things which slay the innocentor steal from those who hoard their centor don the blasphemer's raimentor those who find their souls are spentor worship me to this extentor make a Hero's fool descent...Everyone will know my Things.Things which spit on human trustor tempt the weak with mortal lustor delight in that which does combustor laugh as cities fall to dustor mock those who feel they're justor watch these mighty warriors rustor make a Hero's fool sword-thrust...Everyone will know my Things.NO!That's not for you!Somehow you'll escapeAll this madness and death.You'll return to your partyand regain your breath.With your vorpal steel gleamingyou'll hold your sword high!Ready for anything my Things may try.Ready because you're a high-level guy!Oh, the monsters you'll slay!  There is work to be done!There are points to be scored.  There are fights to be won.And the incredible whirlwinds you make with that swordwill make you a most famous Hero, milord.Fame!  You'll be famous as famous can bewith all kingdoms singing the ballads of Thee.Except when they can't.Because, this time, they shan't...I'm afraid that while youand your party descended,my Things have insuredthese kingdoms had ended.All Corrupted!Whether you like it or not,Corrupted is somethingyou'll be quite a lot.And when you're corrupted, there's an excellent chanceyou'll become Things that scare you right out of your pants.There are Creatures down here, who live for destruction,with powers to insure there'll be no resurrection.And you will succumbThough your heart may be pure.You will succumbof this I am sure.You will succumbas you have to my lure.Downward through manya frightening shock,as your mind becomes thinnerand your heart becomes rock.Down and down you will fall.And I know you'll fall farChased by this evilWherever you are.You'll give up, of course,as you already know.You'll give upWhen you see what I've done as you go.Be sure as you treadto remember your rolein your homeland's demisein the pit of your soul.Just never forget that when you stole my Item,You bestowed Zor on your world and you're too late to fight him.And will you be damned?Yes!  You will, indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)WAIT, YOU ROLLED A NINETY-NINE!?No...You've been blessed by the luck of an impertinent die!?I worked hard on this villain! Damn! Why, O, why???You ruined his spell!Let me see those dice!Fine, you destroy Zor...Dude...that was nice.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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