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A burly, grizzled man in leather... well, everything, is busy peeling the skin off of a no-longer-recognizable animal. He looks up at you and growls, brandishing his skinning knife as if to say "bother me, and you'll be next."
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One-time
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A loud thwock! noise draws your attention, and you follow the sound to a man in a once-white apron, who is butchering a bighorn sheep or some other large desert animal with an oversized and heavy-looking meat cleaver. As he's hauling the implement up onto his shoulder for another blow, he catches sight of you and hisses with a wild look in his eye.
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One-time
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Reach for the sky, traitor/clown!
You quickly turn around and see a grizzled-looking man in all black clothes -- except for his hat, which is white with brightly-colored spots. He's pointing a gun at you.
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One-time
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Bring it, Chuckles! or I guess you know too much, then. Sorry, I can't let you screw up my plans.
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Bad guys
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a clown hunter
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XP (kill) |
20 - 22
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Drops
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colorful hat
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You spot a hellcalf grazing off the side of the trail, just as it spots you.
Its eyes glow and two shadowcows split off from it, forming a small, frightening herd.
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Repeatable
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As the trail curves through a patch of marshy ground, you catch a whiff of something worse than swamp gas.
It's a stankobove -- a cow skull floating in a cloud of noxious vapors -- and it saw you even before you smelled it.
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Repeatable
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You come across a goblin, marching around in the woods. They're taller than a typical goblin, probably because their boots are taller than typical goblin boots. In fact these boots are so tall, they must be half-stuffed with socks to keep the tops from jamming the goblin in the groin.
The goblin sees you and marches over, attempting to look intimidating instead of awkward.
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One-time
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A rustling sound in the bushes draws your attention, and you decide to investigate -- because that's what adventurers do, no matter how bad of an idea it will probably turn out to be.
The rustling turns out to be a goblin -- a goblin wearing (euggh) clown make-up and practicing their cartwheels (and mostly failing). Eventually they give up on tumbling practice and start repeatedly throwing a shiny metal ball in the air and catching it.
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One-time
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Well, this is unusual. In this wooded area out in the middle of nowhere, a goblin has constructed a little lean-to with a rough wooden counter. It looks like something a kid would sell lemonade out of, except instead of lemonade they've got a display of shiny bits of jewelry.
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One-time
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- Leave the goblin alone [no Dark Horse]
continue travel
- Ride away quickly [Dark Horse]
continue travel
- Give the goblin 100 Meat [100 meat, no goblintongue]
- Buy the tough-looking ring [100 meat]
- Buy the sparkly ring [100 meat]
- Buy the elegant ring [100 meat]
- Buy no rings and leave
continue travel
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With a shout -- well, more of a loud hiss -- a skeleton leaps at you from the underbrush. He/She's wearing a cavalry hat and has a cavalry saber, but isn't riding a cavalry horse, which I'm pretty sure is the main thing that differentiates cavalry from infantry, if not the only thing.
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One-time
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You rein in your horse upon hearing a rattle of bones and clanking of chains nearby. With a hiss, a skeletal figure scuttles toward you.
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One-time
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A shot rings out and something buzzes past your ear. You quickly dive behind a rock just in case these two things are connected and not just, say, someone hunting nearby and also there's a bee.
Peering carefully around your rock, you eventually spot movement in the underbrush -- it's a hunter with an old-fashioned matchlock rifle and a cloak with leaves stuck to it. (Which is less effective as camouflage than it sounds, because all the trees around here are pine trees.) You also notice that he/she's been out here a very long time, which you can infer from the way he/she is literally a skeleton.
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One-time
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You smell it before you see it: a skeleton trudging toward you, covered with mud and muck and smelling like garbage juice. It must have crawled out of some horrible bog nearby, and if the skeleton smells this bad, the bog must be unimaginable. So it makes sense that even a skeleton would want to get away from there.
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Repeatable
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Fight it
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Bad guys
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a smelleton
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XP (kill) |
20 - 22
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Drops
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1-2 of
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A greenish, human-shaped cloud of writhing smoke wafts toward you moaning and whispering. Given the smell, you'd guess that someone ate way too much Limburger cheese, and then burped so hard they blasted out their soul.
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Repeatable [Pale Horse]
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You have a run-in with the worst-smelling snake you've ever seen. It is basically a cartoon stink-line come to life.
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Repeatable
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Your El Vibrato bleeps, and you follow the signal, because of course you do! Why wouldn't you?
One reason why you might not is that it led you to a hulking robot that could easily pound you into scrap.
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Repeatable [El Vibrato transponder]
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- Leave it alone
continue travel
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