Chapter 16: The Top of the World
This level was a roller-coaster ride. Literally. Well, the first half of it is. After outsmarting yet another robo-gorilla, Rayman sat on a metal chair attached to some sort of zipline, and it took him for a ride through the forest.
Rayman turned and turned on the zipline in his chair and dodged all the obstacles the pirates had created AND collected all the lums along the way. He had never ridden a rotating roller-coaster before. This was his first time. It was slightly nauseating but also very cool. The pirates do know how to make some things fun sometimes.
After the hazardous ride seemingly stretching on forever, he found himself inside another pirate ship. "How many pirate ships do these guys have?" Rayman wondered. Hundreds probably. Thousands? And the Buccaneer was the most dangerous one of them all, what with its mounting slave count. He wondered how many of his people they had managed to capture and what he had to do to save them all.
But never mind. First things first. He destroyed another barrel guy and dodged his stink bombs at the same time. A few fully-charged, electrifying shots from his fist did the trick. The barrel guy exploded and left some red lums behind, and Rayman happily collected them all.
He then jumped over some more kegs rolling in his direction up ahead, and collecting some more red lums. He climbed up some rope and then found himself in a room full of boxes. Some of the boxes, assumingly cargo of some sorts, stretching as tall and high as the ceiling of the pirate ship's cargo room. Rayman began to hang onto and climb on top of all of the boxes to get all the yellow lums he could.
But not before defeating another barrel guy. There was a keg dispenser coincidentally in the same room. Rayman picked up a keg and threw it at the barrel guy, and he was defeated in one go. "YEAH!" Rayman shouted. And then he broke cage 59 in the corner of the room.
He found a small way behind some really talk boxes and started to explore. He came across a large abyss and a floating platform with rotating turbines underneath it, just like the ones in the Echoing Caves, was in the way. Rayman could either climb the webs above him, horizontally, to cross to the other side or ride the floating platform. He decided to climb, as he noticed that the platform could just turn upside down when it reached the other side and the turbines facing upwards could kill him. He dropped onto the other side and found a door blocked with bandages. Shooting at it didn't help. Maybe throwing a keg at it will do. Oh, well. Back to the drawing board.
Rayman got himself and a keg from the cargo room to the other side of the abyss by riding the platform, the jumping off it right before it rotates upside down and exposes its turbines on the top. He threw the keg at the door and hey, presto! It worked. Behind the door, a Teensie waved at him in a small room, from its little throne-seat. Rayman wondered how long it had been in there, locked up in such a little room. But no matter. Whenever he saw a Teensie with a flower crown on it, he knew his level had come to an end, or almost the end.
He followed the Teensie out of the room to where the portal was going to appear after they danced in front of it. Along the way, Rayman defeated another barrel guy, collected the rest of the lums of this level, and broke his 60th cage. And up his energy level went along with its maximum point!
Then Rayman did the routine Happy Dance with the Teensie and waved goodbye to yet another level.
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This was a relatively easy level. Rosalynn needed one after a bollocks-hard and frustrating one like The Precipice. And when was the last time she had gone for a roller-coaster ride? On her own or with friends or family? She couldn't remember. Amusement parks worldwide aren't what they used to be in the second half of the 21st century. She planned on taking a trip down to Parc Asterix or Parc Disneyland in France sometime soon with her boo.