Congrats everyone! Really fun week. Wish I had been in a different world a bit that had more control abilities, but it ended pretty cool.
Gonna just post the rest of that last dream here now that I’ve got some time.
Heading into the room. Completely white room. On the ceiling is a gross looking monster worm caterpillar thing. It has face pinchers and it *schwooms* at me. I dodge and Kayla shoots another fireball at it. Her charm only has two dots left. When the catterpillar dissipates, there are two power ups waiting. One of them looks like fire and one looks mechanical. I stab my trident into the fire and it gains the ability. Kayla tried to grab the other one and it dissipated. Two doors ahead. I pick the left and she picks right.
One look at each other and we head in. We will find and kill that guy.
I can feel that it teleports me somewhere completely else. Instead of a white room, it’s more of a dark dungeony with greyish walls type of room.
Something dark and insect like from the right slices at me. An 8 foot dark gross looking praying mantis type things comes and I am not fast enough to stab and I have to block with the trident. It swings a few times and me and I have to block and dodge and then finally get a good stab at its face. As it pierces through, I also slightly get stabbed in the stomach. Ouchie. Blood starts going out, but not too much.
Two different abilities pop up. One is yellowish and one is greenish. I reach in and grab the yellowish one. My hand is now covered in some energy it can slightly control. Nothing like real energy control, very limited attacks, but I can also change its shape. Seems to be about one cubic foot of energy I can shape however I want but needs to stay attached to my hand. I exit out the door.
It is much darker. I fan the energy out into a big bulb type thing to make it brighter. I see something slither and I shoot fire from the trident. The fire quickly starts eating at the snake, but it also lunges at me with its dying attack. I switch my bulb to a shield and protect myself.
Another ability. I don’t remember the secondary choice. This transforms my trident into a spear.
Next room is bright and I see a dark version of myself. Shadow link style.
We start fighting. He is just as fast me and strong. Shield and spear just like me. He doesn’t seem to be able to be smart with his energy. He keeps it into shield and randomly will switch it into a dagger and takes some stabs. I end up switching it into a whip and tear the spear out of his hand and then switch it back to a shield and attack like crazy and he is unable to keep up with just his shield and I finally am able to get a bunch of wounds on him and as he slows down I finally am able to land a killing blow.
New ability is to snap and drop a rock from the ceiling, snap again and it disappears.
Next room. Blue walls all around. Frick. Also water. I can’t breathe. Eel type thing coming at me. I shoot a fireball at it. No effect. It screams a water ball at me and I use my energy ball to swim me through the water quickly and avoid it. Only three shots left in my fire. I can swim really fast by changing the energy around. Faster than he can. I finally am able to grab ahold of the side of him and start stabbing away. It’s getting darker as I finish the final stabs. Water disappears. Just one ability this time. Has a clock on it.
Next room. Super black. I snap and a rock falls and I hear a slight yell. Sounded like kayla. I spread the light out and can barely see anything.
“Sorry!”
“Isn’t the worst that has happened, we can heal more when we get out.”
As I hear her, I move to the sound and bring her into a bubble with the energy so we can see each other. She has a machine on her back, some red lights coming out of her mouth and she is missing an arm, she has used some sticky goo stuff to stop it from bleeding. Reminding me of the first time I decided to let her be part of my team really. When she lost a lot of limbs and was using tk to move around.
Anyways. I give her a big hug.
“It’s going to be okay.” I say.
“Let’s kill this asshole” she says.
We search the room and we find a door. We hold hands and go through together.
“Congrats! You made it through! I thought only one of you would make it actually.”
He is sitting on a throne in a giant throne room in a giant castle like place we are suddenly in the middle of.
It’s the man from the mall.
“What is this for?” I ask him.
“Isn’t it obvious?”
“You were looking for someone stronger than you?”
A bell appears above his head and starts dinging loudly.
“Bingo! But not just anyone!!!”
“You want the dreamer.” I smile.
“Why does he avoid me? Why doesn’t he listen when people call?!? What is so important?!?”
“Haha. You want the old man.” Kayla laughs at him.
He seems to have all his power and we are limited here. No… that’s not possible. We must follow the same rules in a place. What are the rules? Think think. You must obtain the abilities. He has gone through more levels than us. Not invincible. Just make a game that you are overpowered in and bring someone to start at level one. Not a bad idea.
He can summon something like a bell for comedic effect. That could be a lot of different controls. Could be something like energy with just different materials. We will see. Waiting will do nothing.
I walk towards him. He put a hand up and wind comes at me. I slow time didn’t have time to check it. I snap. It falls down at normal speed while he moves slowly. He tries to jump out of the way. Not a million abilities then. Maybe he just went a different route than us and just knows all the abilities. He seemed to know that rock would come when I snapped. The rock misses him barely as I am rushing towards him. 50 feet was about the distance, but I made it 35 or so when time returned to normal. Kayla is not far behind me because she was holding my hand when i slowed time. We jump to the sides and I am facing him. He summons a sword. Could still be the same ability of summoning material. He jumps in the air and gravity works less good for him. Allowing him to fly(ish) over me.
I snap to drop a rock and my rock is dissipated. Dang it. Forgot I needed to snap twice. I point my spear at him and realize that he is running for the door. There is one door and lots of giant windows with no glass that go from floor to ceiling. I snap again and make a bigger rock than I thought possible. It blocks the door he is running for. He turns and jumps out a window.
“Anything?” I ask Kayla as we rush towards the window he has dropped slowly down. 40 feet. Too far for me with my abilities.
“Yeah! Catch me after”
I jump down and am speeding to the ground. Almost catching up to the man. Let’s call him the searcher for now.
Before I hit the ground, something bungees me back up halfway and then a quarter of the way. I slice up with the spear and cut it when I’m dangling like 8 feet and then land on my feet. As I land, I see Kayla falling down.
I slow time so I can make things. I quickly make my own thing out of energy that will bend and bounce a bit that catches her a bit and then when it slows her a bit without hurting I undo it and then do it again and again. Three times and then time has sped up and the third one I let catch her completely.
We are near an ocean. Looks similar to the ocean in inception. He is just running from us. We will eventually catch up with the time control. He isn’t running fast tho. He turns and his mouth opens. I can’t hear anything anymore. My ears are bleeding. Kayla’s ears are bleeding too. Three abilities. At least two more.
When I finally catch up to him, we are running on the beach together and I have about 10 seconds before time slow can be used again. I fling energy into a whip at him and before it lands, he disappears. I turn around to attack and glance quickly up, he is up! A short range teleport, but not above me, above kayla. He stabs down with his sword and she blocks it and his foot gets much bigger and slams down at her, crushing the metal on her back and maybe breaking part of her. 8 seconds left before time slow. He is 10 feet away. I am already rushing as fast as I can at him and I turn my energy into a long long long sharp spear that stabs directly into his shoulder and bends. A suit coat that is armor. I keep pushing and making it stronger and thicker as I get closer and it knocks him off of her. 5 seconds before I can time slow. I throw a fire ball and my spear and slash at his face with energy in the form of a blade. All aimed well at where he is heading, falling backwards. His hand in front of him trying desperately to stop all of them and it does! It gets much bigger and is able to take all of them. Not very well. Blood everywhere. Then he makes it smaller and the fire mark and gash on his hand and spear stab are all just small wounds.
2 seconds left. Water swooshes out at him from Kayla’s left eye. He tries to block again, but it’s too much water too quickly and he enlarges his entire body, except the one hand so that blood doesn’t get everywhere. The water swishes at his armor suit and doesn’t seem to do much. Kayla opens her mouth and the top of her head tilts back and a red light shoots out of her mouth, hitting me. Rage hits me. Oh no.
I stop time. I snap, i grab the spear and shoot a fireball. A second fireball from Kayla heads at him too. Ice stops me at my feet. Didn’t see it coming. His metal reaches out at me. He gets hit. The metal is heading to my eye, about to go into normal time and I slide and slide and it speed up and stabs through the side of my face. Barely missing my brain, still slicing through bone near my eye but not in my eye.
He was no longer large. I am still stuck in ice at my feet. He is stuck halfway under a rock. Kayla dives at him with one arm and a dagger shining with lightning. The world slowly fades away before she hits him. We are now in the mansion basement from before. Wounds still here. Weapons not except my trident and Kayla’s bracelet.
My feet hurt. No. My feet feel nothing. I look down and realize that they have completely lost all ability because of the ice. Kayla walks over to him. Raises the bangle above his face and fires. The world dissipates.
I wake in a bed. People surrounding me. I’m not back in zodra proper yet, one last trap to deal with. I wake again. This time irl. Guess I’ll finish that tomorrow.
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