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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[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[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.]

[neurotic-insect.livejournal.com]

[Okay! Doesn't speak, or if it does, it doesn't understand him. The sheer size of the thing was what gave him the most trouble. He was far too disgusted to focus completely on the shield and was trying to figure out the best way to disembowel this...thing as quickly as possible.]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[The rust monster starts walking around the barrier, trying to find a way to the delicious metal.]

[neurotic-insect.livejournal.com]

[And Dimitri backed into the wall, making a nice, near arc of safety for himself. What the beast could want he did not know, but it wouldn't matter soon. He focused more energy around various joints on the insect-like thing, ready to crush them.]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[The rust monster follows as much as the barrier will allow, then suddenly its legs feel really hot and uncomfortable. Its antennae wave in alarm.]

[neurotic-insect.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry, but I'd rather live now than worry later.

{He sighs quietly and the creature is separated from most of it's limbs, including what he guessed must have been his head.]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[With a wet cracking noise, the poor, innocent, harmless rust monster's limbs and head come off, leaving the torso to hit the ground and spill bugjuice all over the stone floor.]

[No experience points for you, you're a high-level psychic and killed a CR 3 monster.]

[neurotic-insect.livejournal.com]

[He was born in rural Russia in 1970. He accepts that there are big guns and big people and big governments and lots of other scary things that he knows how to deal with. Show him a bug of any kind roughly the size of a pony, and his first thought is to run away and kill it. Preferably in that order.]

[The experience points are a bummer, but he sighs and edges along the wall before breaking out into a flat run far and away from the dungeon. He refuses to explore a place that spawns creatures like that. He runs and runs and doesn't stop until he finds the bar, grabs a couple of bottles of vodka and heads back to his place to drink away that image until he passes out good and hard.]