ADVENTURE! FORTUNE! FAME! EXPERIENCE POINTS!

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Standing before you is the entrance to a large dungeon, filled with traps, treasure, and horrible creatures. Within this dungeon lurk four iconic Dungeons and Dragons monsters. Are you brave enough to face them?

Beholder, Lawful Evil, Challenge Rating 13


Displacer Beast, Lawful Evil, Challenge Rating 5


Mind Flayer, Lawful Evil, Challenge Rating 8


Rust Monster, Neutral, Challenge Rating 3

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[psychic-waltz.livejournal.com]

[Mantis ventures into the dungeon, lured more by the promise of a little peace and quiet rather than treasures.]

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[A lone mindflayer wanders the deepest part of the dungeon, enjoying the solitude and damp environment. It's stirred from its thoughts when it's expansive telepathic field picks up a human mind nearby. And not just any human, a psychic. Tempted by the prospect of delicious psychic brains, the illithid wanders in the direction of the human to investigate.]

[psychic-waltz.livejournal.com]

[Something's coming. Mantis pauses and steps back, eyes narrowed. There was something even more alien than the other newcomers, and it was aware of him. There was nothing spoken between the two minds, yet the psychic knew this deep in his bones.]

[This was not good. His hand adjusts a strap on the arm of his uniform, tightening it with short, jerky movements.]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[Hmm, this psychic seems to be a much more powerful telepath than the mind flayer is. Oh well, it's still an inferior human without the innate psychic resistance of an illithid. Probably a good idea to prepare for the worst, just in case. Not that the mind flayer expects to lose to a human.]

[Let's try a a mind blast from a safe distance. DC 17 Will save or be stunned for half a minute.]

[psychic-waltz.livejournal.com]

[Will save fails; Mantis has only ever dealt with human horrors, not on creatures with such powerful and strange minds. The blast leaves him stunned and he reels back, stumbling in the dark cave.]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[Looks like the mind blast worked. The mind flayer approaches its stunned prey and grabs his head with its face tentacles.]

[psychic-waltz.livejournal.com]

[There's a shriek as the bony man struggles, trying to fight off the abomination. Mantis kicks back with his heavy boot and tries to send heavy cave rocks at the monster's body. His success is hampered by the remaining effects of the mind blast, though.]

[identitycircuit.livejournal.com]

[Angry roommate is angry and coming to the rescue with a gun]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[Aw man, right as the mind flayer was about to have some DELICIOUS BRAINS, another pesky human has to show up. At least this one looks like it's already wounded. MIND BLAST!]

[neurotic-insect.livejournal.com]

[The dungeon entrance teased him mercilessly. It was the kind of place he never explored in his youth, and he'd be damned if he got scared now. This was something truly interesting to do. Ergo, this is why Dimitri was currently walking in without worry or much of a care.]

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[A squat, pony-sized, four-legged insectlike creature shuffles across the stone floor, its long, feathery antennae waving in the air. A recent cave-in trapped the rust monster in a section of the dungeon with very little metal, and it is now quite hungry.]

[neurotic-insect.livejournal.com]

[Such strange architecture, like the large crypts that you could find in his native Russia. He ran his hand along one wall, enjoying the feeling of stone and dust.]

Hmm? [He faltered in his step for all of a second, certain he was sensing the presence of something in the dungeon.]

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[The rust monster continues on its way. It can smell a small amount of metal nearby, hardly enough to make a proper meal, but it's too hungry to pass up any food.]

[It spots a tall creature nearby, one of the two-legged kinds that often carry metal with them.]

[neurotic-insect.livejournal.com]

[!]

[Dimitri froze where he strode, his stomach disappearing somewhere onto the floor. WHAT. THE. HELL. WAS. THAT. The air around him grew thick with a shield of psychokinesis. Okay, the entrance wasn't too far behind and he hadn't made any turns. Running should be fairly simple.]

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[The rust monster continues to amble along, headed straight for the food-carrying person. Wait...why isn't it moving? There's something in the way! The rust monster's antennae wave frantically over the invisible barrier as it tries in vain to move forward.]

[neurotic-insect.livejournal.com]

[Dimitri took several long steps back, the shield gaining intensity with his growing fear of whatever this thing was. If he ran, it might follow, and if it followed...if it followed, it might hurt someone other than him. He wasn't so sure he could live with that.]

What are you?

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[Continuing to struggle against the invisible wall, the rust monster cocks its head. Now the person is making sounds it doesn't understand.]

[hatesthedark.livejournal.com]

[Well she could hardly pass by such a pretty door. She peeks inside it.]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[...Aaaand Screaming Mantis gets an armful of terrified rust monster.]

[After witnessing the grizzly remains of its brethren, gruesomely murdered in the thread above, the second rust monster immediately forgot all thoughts of hunger and got the fuck out of there.]

[hatesthedark.livejournal.com]

[She lets out a small shriek as she's suddenly finds herself being knock over by a large strange bug.]

[She goes to throw her arms over her face, afraid that the bug might try to attack her.]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[The panicked rust monster clambers over this new person and waves its antennae frantically.]

[hatesthedark.livejournal.com]

[She lets out a frightened squeak, but she becomes curious when it doesn't right out attack her.]

[She moved her arms and looked up at the large insect.]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[The rust monster crawls off the human and turns around, examining its new surroundings now that it's no longer in immediate danger. It looks back to the human.]

[hatesthedark.livejournal.com]

[She sits up and dusts herself up.]

[She glances at it, then cautiously scoots over to touch it.]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[Calmed down, the rust monster is hungry again. It waves its antennae, trying to sniff out more metal. The two-legged creature doesn't have as much metal with her as most, but there's a little on her arm.]

[The rust monster reaches for the bracelet on the human's arm with a feathery antenna.]