Stage 5 - The Temple of Doom II

"This should prove useful." Murasaki picks up the chainsaw and readies it for some carnage!

Gong-Ju unloads with both barrels of her shotgun!

[ +- ] 🔥 Bye Bye American Pie

I ♥️ ROCKY ROAD

Princess Diamond’s stings take out two more pink demons. The last is taken out by Gong-Ju’s shotgun blast! The zombie crowd goes wild.

"Yrrraaaaaaayyyyyrrr."

Well… wild by zombie standards.

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Anyway, it seems the weapons you found are highly effective against demons. There’s enough gas in the chainsaw and ammo and the guns, that they should help our Dear B☢️MBSHELLS with the next room fulla demons.

But one problem: you don’t have a yellow key or a blue key. And the naked demons you killed certainly don’t have anything on them.

Suddenly there’s a huge explosion on the north side of the room! Chunks of wall and pieces of zombie fly into the arena.

The zombie’s dead fingers have a rigor-mortissy grip on the pin to a hand grenade. Once the smoke clears, you can see a formerly-hidden passage. Inside are more zombies that got blown to bits and a box with a red cross on it.

Tap the box to open it. There may be medical supplies that can dress Casey’s wound!

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Inside the box is a tiny imp, who stands only an inch or two taller than Fairy-Princess Diamond!

"Please don’t hurt me!" he begs in a chipmunky voice. Seeing the scratch on Casey’s shoulder, he quickly grabs a band-aid and holds it up. "Please accept my peace offering!" OOC: By inexplicable video-gamey rules, Casey can only heal if somebody accepts the peace offering, even though it looks like you should just be able to step on the imp and have a whole box of band-aids.

"Hm... We accept your offering, miniature demon." Murasaki takes the band-aid from the imp and carefully applies it to Casey's shoulder.

"Thank you," the imp replies. And while the peace offering might have been all he planned to offer, Murasaki’s respectful tone prompts him to do more.

"Since you were kind to me… unlike those mean zombies who locked me in this box," he bitterly mumbles before continuing (rather chipperly), "I will be kind to you.

"The Revenant is beyond that red door. He has cannons on his shoulders that he expected me to operate. Y’know… to kill you. But I… well… stalled. I said I never fired a cannon; lemme study one."

The imp then pushes a mount of band-aids aside, revealing a tiny bazooka.

"It’s actually very easy to use, as long as your fingers can fit the trigger grip."

The imp looks around at the interior of the med kit. "You know what? As long as nobody closes the box and locks me inside, it might make a nice house. I’ll stay, but thanks!"

The imp starts to build a sofa out of band-aids and cotton balls.

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[ +- ] 🔥 In the Dark

ROCKET SOCK-IT ROBOTS

When you do enter the next room, it’s pitch black…
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Murasaki takes point as they head into the dark room, keeping her chainsaw prepared in case she needs it. She's not sure what to expect from the foe that the little imp mentioned, but it at least sounds like they may not need to worry about the shoulder cannons.

"Revnant? I heard you would like us dead. Come and face us if you dare." She calls into the shadows, hoping to draw him out. She listens intently for the slightest noise that wasn't made by her or her allies.

Rockets fly out of the darkness!The explosion lights the room, revealing three demons hooked up to charging stations.

"It’s business," says the Revenant. "Nothing personal." His tone suggests he’s above it all, whatever it might be.

But the Mancubus cuts him off. "BOY AM I GLAD TO FINALLY REMOVE THE PLUG FROM MY ASS." He farts loudly as he pulls his hefty form away from multiple plugs, all of which were actually hooked to his upper back.

The Unwilling rolls his empty eye socket.


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Feeling refreshed from the teeny demon's bandaid, Casey charges into the room, rolling and zigzagging to avoid the barrage of rockets.

Avoiding the worst of the rocket blasts, Casey still gets launched into the air by one. But luckily, it sends her flying right at the Revenant and she smashes its skull-like face with the butt of the rifle.

Gong-Ju dodges towards the enemies, but cries out in pain as the rocket's explosions scorch her anwyay! She staggers towards the Unwilling and blasts it with the shotgun at close range!

Murasaki manages to evade the sudden salvo of rockets by diving behind a fortuitously placed piece of machinery.

When the attack is over, she leaves her cover and rushes down the Mancubus, revving her chainsaw. She carves a deep gash diagonally across his torso. She's covered in a spray of blood and viscera that soaks into her once purple gi.

Some of you come out of the attack unscathed—all of you hit back! The mancubus is bloodie! The unwilling’s torso now has a big hole to match the one on his head! Casey’s rifle bashes the revenant’s head, and when she makes a second strike, she clubs one of the impzookas on his shoulder!

"You’ll pay for that!" But the one rocket that fires sails past Casey! Its homing feature finally kicks in—and it veers toward Diamond!The mancubus tries to dive on top of Murasaki!The unwilling says to Gong-Gu, "I don’t want to hurt you but…" He fires a laser beam from his hollow head. And he lied, he totally wants to hurt you!

Murasaki lifts her chainsaw just in time to impale the incoming mancubus on the business end of it! She holds the demon aloft, revving her weapon for extra damage before flinging her foe across the room with a brutal swing. Rushing him down, she follows up with a horizontal slash.

Landing in a roll, Casey faces the demons and begins to dance the grapevine in a circle around them, focusing pulse blasts on the revenant. "All those dance classes were money well spent!" she says.