Chicken Run

[big_whoop]

Who: big_whoop, realfakehero, pet_moonrabbit, maocontent, the_5th_doll, and whoever just feels BORED.
What: Guybrush finally goes on his first Item World dive! But the item he uses ends up having a few, uh, QUIRKS.
When: After Guybrush's round of recruitment and brief visit to the shop.
Where: The Item World
Warnings: May require LucasArts logic. Fear.

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[pet_moonrabbit]

"I brought along some extra medicine, just in case," Reisen said as she showed up, the Yoshitsuna awkwardly slung across her back, "So... an item world? I've never been in one of those before, but I've heard that the difficulty depends on the strength of the item you go into."

[big_whoop]

"I have ABSOLUTELY no objections to extra shiny happy healy things," Guybrush replied, in his usual eloquent fashion.

He shrugged. "Read something about that. Which is why I think I'm gonna use... THIS!"

He whips out... a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle. A BROKEN pulley.

"Figure something THIS useless can't be TOO strong of a dungeon," he explains sheepishly.

[pet_moonrabbit]

Reisen put a hand to her mouth, trying to stifle a laugh... somewhat unsuccessfully. She recognized it from when Guybrush showed it to her earlier.

"T-that thing?" she finally said after a half minute, "I'd be surprised if the monsters in that would even know how to fight at all."

[maocontent]

There was some chuckling.

"Figures. Going into useless items is apparently the new thing to do these days," Mao strolled in. "Aren't you supposed to be strengthening something that actually has worth? A million times zero is still zero, you know!"

[big_whoop]

"Strengthening? Who cares about strengthening? I just want loot," replied Guybrush. "Besides, this thing has a million uses! ...when it's not broken, anyway."

He lies, of course. It had one use. ONE. But, well, Guybrush isn't one to give ground, no matter how shaky it is.

[the_5th_doll]

A red light flew towards the group, followed by Shinku, who was hearing her detective outfit.

"Hello there. Glad to see you found some people Guybrush. I was not able to sadly."

[pet_moonrabbit]

"I don't think there'd be much treasure to be found in a rubber chicken... broken pulley... thing..." Reisen said, before noticing Shinku, "Oh, you're coming along, too?"

[big_whoop]

"Maybe that's just what they WANT you to think!" Guybrush said with a flourish. "Besides. It's a dummy run. My type of character, we don't usually do this sorta thing too much. I'm lucky if I have a single level to my name."

It was rather unusual for Guybrush to admit that he was less than perfect, but he wasn't so dumb as to think he could take on an entirely new experience and not come out with several broken bones. If he was lucky.

He looked at Shinku. "Aw, don't worry. See? I found some pretty good party members!" He didn't add that his track record with reliable party recruits was... unlucky at best.

[the_5th_doll]

She looks at Reisen. "Yes, I am coming along. It was my suggestion to Guybrush we do this. I even brought tea and cake."

Shinku was holding a cute picnic basket that was almost too big for her to carry.

[maocontent]

Mao sneered. "It's all about balance and stat choice. But tough luck for you, you're always in an earligame JRPG where all you get is fodder!"

However, the demon dean happily thumped Guybrush's back. "Lucky for you, you finally reached the point where all the badass members of the game join you! Hehe, I'll be glad to show you all the effective evils of grinding to become more powerful!"

[pet_moonrabbit]

"Uh... do you think we're going to going to have time for tea and cake in an item world, Shinku?" Reisen asked the doll.

Reisen then glances over at Mao, cringing a bit as the fourth wall is pounded on, "... what's... a JRPG?"

The moon rabbit puts a hand to her forehead, feeling a massive headache coming on.

[big_whoop]

"Yeah, that's... that's great, Mao. Looking forward to it," Guybrush lied. Regardless of what people have told him, he's not entirely convinced he hasn't died and gone to hell. After all, he was currently stuck in a world that forced him to live and die by math -- and he HATED math.

Mao was enthusiastic at least, however. That was more than could be said about half the people he'd ever recruited for deeds of daring do, who had a bad habit of preferring to go whale watching than do things like, you know, actually help run a ship.

He looked around. Still missing a crew member. Hopefully they'd show up soon.

[the_5th_doll]

"This is always time for a tea break Reisen. I'm sure Guybrush Agrees with me. I was even able to find some grog for him. Located it at the bar."

She takes out a jug with 3 X's on it, and shows it to Guybrush.

"This is grog right? And who are we waiting for?"

[pet_moonrabbit]

"... okay, I suppose we might find time to break for tea, but... grog? I don't think adventuring and drinking that kind of alcohol mix too well," Reisen said uneasily.

[big_whoop]

"You kidding? Sometimes grog's the only thing that keeps a pirate GOING through an adventure." He eyed the bottle. "Though it can't be TOO potent, if it hasn't started seeping through the bottom of the jug yet. Either that or that's a really strong bottle."

He was pleased, though. Grog in the Netherworld! Couldn't be TOO bad.

[pet_moonrabbit]

Reisen sighed at that, but decided not to pursue the subject any further. By the look of things, Mao and herself would probably handle most of the fighting anyway.

"So, who or what are we waiting for?" Reisen asked.