Biting a blue chew-bulb already received 3 votes, so Jang Mistral will do this.
338
Just in time, your grabber leaps out and snatches the key from the Deik’s hull. Opening your hatch, you swim to the safety of the shore, while both spheres sink rapidly to the bottom of the lake. You have won! Turn to 222.
222
[spoiler]
[/spoiler]
To the dismay of the inn’s patrons, you step triumphantly from the orange sphere, returning rapidly to normal size. Some of the crowd are hissing at you, a few cheer – but most didn’t even care who won. Picking up your trophy, the Bicephalon’s brain, you prepare to exit the inn. At this moment, however, the water-drenched Deik steps from the hovering sphere. Of course, the Deik is a molluscoid and could not drown anyway! Shivering with cold and anger, he calls for his guards to slay you; one steps in your way before you can depart.
OGRE-OID SKILL 6 STAMINA 14
If you win, turn to 119.
The fight:
[spoiler]Round 1: Ogre-Oid Attack Strength: 13, Player Attack Strength: 20;
Ogre-oid Stamina: 12, Player Stamina: 14
Round 2: Ogre-Oid Attack Strength: 14, Player Attack Strength: 18;
Ogre-oid Stamina: 10, Player Stamina: 14
Round 3: Ogre-Oid Attack Strength: 18, Player Attack Strength: 21;
Ogre-oid Stamina: 8, Player Stamina: 14
Round 4: Ogre-Oid Attack Strength: 11, Player Attack Strength: 24;
Ogre-oid Stamina: 6, Player Stamina: 14
Round 5: Ogre-Oid Attack Strength: 16, Player Attack Strength: 17;
Ogre-oid Stamina: 4, Player Stamina: 14
Round 6: Ogre-Oid Attack Strength: 11, Player Attack Strength: 22;
Ogre-oid Stamina: 2, Player Stamina: 14
Round 7: Ogre-Oid Attack Strength: 15, Player Attack Strength: 19;
Ogre-oid Stamina: 0, Player Stamina: 14[/spoiler]
As expected, Jang Mistral flawlessly destroys the Ogre-Oid.
119
At the door, you trip over and accidentally put your foot right through the Bicephalon’s brain, before departing with it. Although several critters chase you, you easily outdistance them, and return to Zud’s chambers. Turn to 129.
129
Zud is delighted. At a command from him, his machine’s grabbing arm retrieves a key from a secret compartment, unlocks Gnasha’s cylinder, and extracts it from your chest. (Remove Zud’s cylinder from your
Adventure Sheet.) Next, the arm snatches the Bicephalon’s brain and inserts it into a small black box beneath Zud’s leather seat. Another Bicephalon brain, old and withered, is taken out and thrown to the floor. Zud now sneers contemptuously at you. ‘I need the brain to control this machine, for it to understand my commands and obey them. My own withered body is naturally quite useless, and the machine carries out all my functions, even helping me to speak and breathe. As the old brain was tiring, I needed another one quickly, and now I’ve got it! Ha! I’ll show you just how strong I am now, by crushing you like a fly!’ The machine rolls forward, raising a metal arm. Will you dive towards the open doorway (turn to 94), or jump on to a desk and draw your laser-sword (turn to 151)?
[spoiler]
[/spoiler]
Please vote before 6:00 PM PDT to guarantee that it will be counted.
Adventure Sheet:
[spoiler]Jang Mistral
SKILL: 12
Initial Skill = 12
STAMINA: 14
Initial Stamina = 24
LUCK: 6
Initial Luck = 12
RATING: 6
CREDITS: 8
Initial = 10
OXYGEN SUPPLY POINTS: 10
Initial = 10
NOTES AND ITEMS:
6 Provision Tablets
Flask of Strong Acid
RESURRECTIONS: 2[/spoiler]
Space Combat Sheet:
[spoiler]STARSHIP:
STARSPRAY
DATA: 4 HIGH POWER LASERS L
8 FORCE SHIELD PODS S
YOUR VEHICLES:
None[/spoiler]