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A shirtless man in tight stretchy pants charges at you out of nowhere.
No more! No more mushrooms! No more yogurt! No more exploring my inner consciousness while running in place! I'm gonna kill something! Kill it and eat it!
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One-time
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Out in the open desert, among the rocks and dunes and underneath the scorching desert sun, you encounter a chef.
That probably doesn't sound all that strange, comparatively, but hold on while I go into more detail.
He has, somehow, hauled a full-size iron potbelly stove out into this blistering hothole, and is cooking something on it, though you can't tell what because all you see in the pan is fire. Rather than being drenched in sweat, he is literally steaming. Furthermore, he is muttering wildly to himself:
"Hotter gotta be hotter hot hot gotta cook cook it right through needs to be hot hotter hotter"
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One-time
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You hear gunshots and someone shouting nearby, and decide to investigate. This instinct is basically what separates an adventurer from a sane person.
You find a bandit in scorched and blackened clothes, wildly firing his pistol at the scenery. Everything he shoots bursts into flames, somehow.
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One-time
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The already-intense heat intensifies. Sweat stings your eyes, and while it's stinging them you fail to use them to notice that you've ridden right into the middle of a herd of pyroboves.
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Repeatable
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- Flee! [Dark Horse]
continue travel
- It's too hot. Just surrender.
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You see what you take to be an oasis in the boiling heat of this region, and spur <horsename> toward it.
As you near it, you discover that you've been fooled. It wasn't an oasis at all, but an evil towering black stone cow monolith.
Anybody could make that mistake, really.
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Repeatable
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- Ride away, and quickly [Dark Horse]
continue travel
- Try to bathe in it anyway
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Off to one side of the trail, you spot a cactus that doesn't look quite right. Specifically, it doesn't look right because it has a goblin face. As you get closer, you become pretty sure that it is actually just a goblin in a cactus outfit. It gives you some annoyed side-eye and tries to wave you away, but the cactus-arms aren't very mobile.
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One-time
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An odd flash of light nearby prompts you to stop and investigate. You discover a goblin with a strange hinged board covered with shiny foil, which they're using to reflect sunlight onto a pair of leather boots.
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One-time
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- Have Gary deal with it [Gary, 250 meat]
- Threaten force [Intimidatin' 4]
- Offer to trade magic for boots [Outfoxin' 4]
- Haggle over the boots [Hornswogglin' 4, and 2 - 250 meat]
- Leave them alone
continue travel
- Offer to buy the boots [250 meat]
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There's a goblin marching down the trail in a soldier's uniform, the pants of which have been seriously pinned-up to account for the goblin's stubby little legs. It salutes when it sees you.
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One-time
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There's a skeleton out here in the desert. That's not very strange, because people die all the time in the desert. This skeleton, though, is doing arm-curls with a pair of iron dumbbells. He/She doesn't have any muscles, but somehow his/her bones are extremely ripped and/or swole.
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One-time
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Your travels are interrupted by a fairly disturbing sight -- a skeleton covered with weird glowing mushrooms, which is shambling toward you and making angry hissing sounds and weird gestures.
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One-time
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A shot rings out, and you duck just in time to avoid your hat being ruined. A skeleton is standing in the road ahead, arms akimbo, hands just over his/her holster, ready for another quick-draw.
Oh also he/she is literally on fire. I almost forgot to mention that.
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One-time
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Phew, it is crazy hot out here. The desert is just the worst. If you stay here too long, you could end up like one of those charred-black skeletons clacking toward you.
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Repeatable
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You stop to investigate a plume of smoke, and discover that where it is, there's no fire.
The next thing you discover is that it's not so much smoke as the charred ghost of someone who suffered a particularly grisly death.
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Repeatable [Pale Horse]
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Looks like someone left their campfire burning. That's dangerous!
...On closer inspection, it turns out to be a nest of fire snakes. That's still pretty dangerous!
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Repeatable
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- Whistle for <horsename> [Dark Horse]
continue travel
- Surrender
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Your El Vibrato device starts bleeping, and the bleeping leads you to an unremarkable sand dune. Which quickly becomes remarkable when the robot buried underneath it wakes up.
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Repeatable [El Vibrato transponder]
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