Note by RedLady: I believe this story is getting underway nicely. In fact I think this is the best chapter we have done so far. So if you have come to see a dense Necromancer who loves to play pranks, a proud yet confused Barbarian, or a 25-year-old Assassin with wrinkles. Well, you've come to the right place! This story used to be called "Let's go kill Diablo," but since none of you seemed interested in that lame title we changed it.
Chapter 4: Golems!
"Hmm. This Golem seems interesting." Adrian pondered
"Let's see. The clay golem is risen just like you would raise a skeleton, except not risen from a dead body."
"Hmm." The Necromancer said to himself. And he picked up a pile of dust and started fingering it. He recited the incantation for rising skeletons.
The pile of dust turned into a scrawny figure that looked a lot like a dirt skeleton.
"What is this? This is not what I imagined at all."
Then he continued reading and the book said, "You can control the appearance of the clay golem by creating a miniature sculpture out of the dirt."
So the Necromancer spent all night creating a miniature sculpture that looked a lot like Diablo and painting it red. He stuck it into his backpack.
"Hmm." He thought to himself. "This will scare them REAL good."
Adrian went up to Drognan and bought a pink electric staff. He then went to sleep and set his alarm clock for five AM. It was a fetish trophy that made a rattling sound after you cursed it, to ring at a certain time. Its eyes would rattle like a maraca at the appointed time it was set.
Early next morning, he raised the golem and put the pink electric staff in his hands. He went up to Effie's room and said in a deep, gruffly voice, "Good Morning Effie!"
Effie woke up groggily and saw what she thought was Diablo shooting lightning inferno at her. She let out a blood-curdling scream and threw millions and millions of spiky disks at it.
"Stop!" The Necromancer yelled in desperation. "You're gonna kill it! It was just a prank!"
"Why you little @$$##$%%^ Necromancer!" She yelled with the look of a vengeful corrupted rogue.
Just then Fury rushed in. And saw what he thought was Diablo about to shoot lightning inferno at Effie and he started throwing millions of javelins at it.
"Stop it everybody! It's just my golem!" Adrian yelled.
"Your golem? Where'd you learn how to do that?" Fury asked.
"Oh just from the book I stole from you." Adrian said accidentally.
The Barbarian's eyes start glowing a deep red. The Necromancer simply says, "Woops. Did I say that aloud?"
Fury and Effie start creeping close to Adrian, pinning him to the wall.
"Can't we make some sort of agreement?" Adrian says meekly.
"What can you possibly have that we don't?" Fury asked rudely.
So the Necromancer tells all about the scroll of Radament and how they need to find the two parts to the lost Horadric staff. He ends his speech with, "So you guys can go off and find the staff and take all the treasure while I stay here and fix my golem."
He looked over at his "holey" golem.
Fury gives Effie a sly look and says, "Oh no, we'll stay and 'fix up' the golem, and you can go find the treasure!"
Effie who finally caught on said, "That's a great idea! We'll 'FIX' your golem."
The Necromancer face went white as he realized what they were planning to do.
Then Fury says, "If you don't agree I can always beat you up."
"And I can always give you my . . . shock treatment." Effie said mischievously getting ready to release a lightning trap underneath the necromancer.
Adrian ran out as if his life depended upon it. As he ran out of the town yelling, "I will come back for you Golem!"
~*~
"Poor Golem might not be here when he gets back!" Effie said menacingly, eyeing the golem.
Fury looked over at her and was shocked to see how tussled Effie looked. She had just woken up after getting drunk and didn't really look her best with messed up hair and bags under her eyes. Fury finding her "just out of bed look" funny, snickered under his breath, but the Assassin heard him.
"What's so funny?" Effie asked brushing some of her tussled hair out of her face.
"Nothing." Fury said as Effie narrowed her eyes at him.
"But you have to admit that was a neat trick!" Fury said changing the subject and pointing over at the clueless looking golem who still stood there in shock at being impaled so many times. He had even forgot to follow his master! Who was his master now? It must be one of these two people.
"I need someone to practice my kicks on." Effie said ignoring Fury and walking up to the Golem who was still quite confused. Was this his master?
Effie gave him a good hard kick and the Golem crumbled to the floor. No, that wasn't his master that's for sure. Maybe it was the other person, but he didn't have time to think because he turned into . . . dirt.
"Well that was disappointing!" Effie said crankily. Fury looked over at Effie again and again noticed how she really needed to brush her hair.
"You know, we're not really gonna let Adrian do all the work are we? I mean I'm actually looking forward to killing things." Effie said having second thoughts. "I don't really want to go on a treasure hunt though. I'd rather assassinate things."
Fury looked at her suspiciously and for the first time realized that she may be some sort of assassin.
Just then the sun went out. Murmurs were heard from the outside and Effie ran to where she thought the window was. Instead she ran into Fury.
"Ow!" She yelped as she thumped into Fury's hard chest. "You OK?" Fury asked reaching out to her not really knowing what else to do.
"Man! You must work out!" Effie exclaimed running her fingers over Fury's pectoral muscles.
If it weren't so dark Effie would have seen Fury blushing from embarrassment.
After a moment of awkwardness Effie remembered that it had suddenly gone dark.
"Why is it so dark? I thought it was morning?" Effie asked.
"I don't know." Fury said stumbling over some broken javelins and dirt on the floor. Effie finally made it to the window and looked out.
"I can't see what's going on, but everyone seems to be confused." Effie pondered.
"We should go talk to that wise Drognan guy. Perhaps he knows what's going on."
"At least nobody can see how much we messed up this room." Effie said as her foot scraped against some debris on the ground from Fury's and her throwing escapade.
"At least no one will see your hair." Fury said.
"What?" Effie asked confused. "What's wrong with my hair?"
"It just looked like a rat slept in it, that's all." Fury said not really trying to sound mean.
"Huh?" Effie said still a little groggy. "Not to mention those wrinkles on your face."
"WHAT!!!!!!! I don't have wrinkles!"
"Yes, you do!" Fury argued. "Right under your eyes . . ."
"You lie!" Effie yelled getting ready to go on one of her vengeance quests.
"And those wrinkles that form when you get really mad on your forehead." Fury remembered.
Just then he barely missed a blade being thrown in his direction.
"I DO NOT HAVE WRINKLES!"
"There is no reason to be ashamed of them . . ."
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Effie yelled in frustration. She ran toward Fury in a fury of rage. Unfortunately she tripped over something like broken pieces of the Golem.
The only noise Fury heard was a big thud on the ground. Then he tip toed toward the door and said in a little voice, "I'll just wait outside."
~*~
Adrian was tiptoeing in the desert. He didn't want to meet up with those crazy birds again. He suddenly heard a low hiss.
"I smell flesh," A voice said. "What are you doing in my territory?"
"Oh, I'm just looking for the Horadric staff." Adrian answered a little scared.
"Ah! An adventurer. I always invite adventurers for dinner . . ."
"Well I am a little hungry." Adrian said still not knowing where the voice was coming from. "Shouldn't you invite me to breakfast instead?"
"OK. Follow me." Out stepped a cat like woman and led him deeper into the desert.
The Necromancer thought to himself. "This is a nice person."
They soon came to a cave in the desert. "This is my home." The Cat woman said. She led him into the cave and prepared a meal of chicken on toast and hot cactus coffee.
"Mmm. That smells good." The Necromancer thought. When they finished eating Adrian said, "I had no idea desert breakfast could be so good."
"So tell me about your adventures, sir." The cat woman said.
So Adrian started droning on about his life as the cat woman crept closer and closer to a lever on the wall. As Adrian started telling about meeting Fury and Effie, the cat woman interrupted him saying, "And now your life ends . . ." And she pulled the lever.
The Necromancer ignored her and started telling her about how he scared Fury and Effie and pulled out his back-up golem and raised it. Just then the wall crumbled and hundreds of cat woman with spears and such jumped out and stopped at the sudden appearance of the Diablo/golem. The Necromancer looked up and saw the cat women and said, "Some family you got here."
The original cat woman said to the Golem, "I'm sorry master. I had no idea this was your companion."
The dense Necromancer finally realized what was happening and decided to use his back-up, back-up plan. He sure was prepared. He pulled a little string on the golem, which activated millions of detonators inside his body and it started burning. The main panther woman said, "Please don't be angry with us Diablo. We didn't know."
Then the Necromancer did a ventriloquist act and made his voice sound like it was coming from the Golem saying, "I shall need a sacrifice!"
One scrawny little panther woman walked up and bowed her head before the golem. The Golem did his strongest move (poke) trying to kill the panther woman.
Then Adrian said in his ventriloquist voice, "You must sacrifice yourself because I am not strong enough to kill you." Then Adrian added in, "You shall have a great spot in hell for this."
So the panther woman killed herself and the golem walked onto the body. Adrian said, "Now give me a map of Maggot Lair so I can find the staff. After all I do need to resurrect my brother, don't I?" One of the panther women solemnly walked up and gave him a map. Then the Necromancer yelled without throwing his voice, "BONE WALL!"
The golem trying to copy his master did the same thing. A shield of bone started surrounding the Necromancer, but not the golem. After all golems can't talk. They are just made out of dirt. The Necromancer yelled, "Corpse Explosion!"
The corpse under the golem exploded, exploding the golem, releasing all the bombs inside him. After all the rubble and the explosions stopped, Adrian picked up all the armor and gold lying around. He then suddenly felt stronger and knew how to control his golem better.
"Woo Hoo!" Adrian yelled to no one in particular. "Who cares if they are going to 'fix' my other golem. I could always make a stronger one."
Just then the sun went out. But Adrian didn't notice.
~*~
Effie and Fury both set out ready for adventure.
"Do you think Adrian knows where to go?" Effie asked.
"I'm sure he has his ways. He is a Necromancer you know." Fury answered looking up ahead. At least it was cool without the blazing sun, yet it was hard to see as he scanned the area for any monsters.
Just then a couple of Sand Raider's started attacking them. Effie kicked them and as a final move made a couple flames surround them, killing most of the Sand Raiders. Fury hacked at them with his axes yelling war cries at them every once in a while. After they were all dead, Effie continued with the conversation.
"Yes but we didn't know where the Claw Viper temple was till Drognan told us." Effie admitted.
"We didn't even know there was a Claw Viper temple till Drognan told us." Fury pointed out sarcastically. "You're not worried about him are you?" Fury teased.
"Of course not." Effie said with a glimmer in her eye. "I just want to get him back for that prank he did this morning. Which reminds me, I need to get you back for this morning as well."
Just then some sand maggots attacked them. Effie got out some fire potions and exploded them while Fury had fun jumping on them. After there was nothing left of the bugs except their guts Fury asked, "What did I do this morning? I thought the golem was Diablo too, about to shoot you with lightning inferno! I was simply trying to save you!"
"You were!" Effie said almost teasingly with mock admiration in her voice. "When I become a damsel in distress, I'll let you know."
Fury looked at her confused. Women gave him a headache.
"But I wasn't talking about that!" Effie said scanning the horizon. "I was talking about that little comment you gave."
"About the wrinkles?"
"YES!" Effie said annoyed feeling her face. "I don't really have wrinkles do I? I'm only 25. I'm not supposed to have wrinkles!"
Then she stopped standing in front of Fury. He looked at her in confusion.
"Now be honest." She said seriously. "Do I really have wrinkles?"
He raised his eye wondering what he should say.
"Am I not the most gorgeous creature you have ever seen?" Effie asked teasingly striking a seductive pose. Fury scuffed the dirt uncomfortably. Fortunately for Fury, some Sand Leapers leaped toward them and again they began to fight.
Then some Hell Buzzards provided aerial raids and some more bugs joined the group along with a couple more Sand Raiders.
"They always attack in groups, don't they?" Effie growled annoyed.
After all the monsters where easily killed Fury speculated, "I wonder why we haven't run into any Panther women?"
"Why? You wanna date one?" Effie teased.
"No. I just know that they are prominent in these areas."
Effie shrugged then her eyes narrowed as she realized something. "You know, this is actually boring. These monsters are almost . . . easy!"
"Yeah. I had more trouble with the corrupted Rouges in the West than I am now." Fury answered.
"And I was expecting a challenge!" Effie murmured, her eyes downcast.
After the two walked in silence Effie said, "Too bad Diablo won't be easily killed."
Fury nodded saying nothing still looking out for another ambush. Effie continued to talk. "Because if he was, he would have been killed already and they wouldn't have had to hire me."
Fury stopped in confusion. She had been hired? Perhaps she truly was an assassin. Effie continued walking not noticing she had lost her companion. Fury ran up to catch up with her.
"Look!" Effie pointed to a ruined like temple structure.
"I guess that's the temple." Fury admitted. They stood outside for a while staring at the crumbling structure. Finally Effie broke the silence, "You know, I really thought that was Diablo in my room today. I thought for sure I was dead meat."
Fury not knowing what to say just stood there.
"Now it's good to know I don't have to do this on my own and have people to help me." Effie said patting Fury on the shoulder. "That's the real reason I was worried about that awful Necromancer. When I think of fighting Diablo, well, it really scares me. That's all."
Fury simply said, "Don't worry about it. Diablo doesn't stand a chance with people like me after him." He smiled puffing out his chest proudly.
Effie turned away smiling to herself. Fury seemed to always be so confident and proud.
"Come on." She said playfully. "We've got some oversized serpents to kill. I never did like snakes."
And they both walked into the temple with their weapons ready and there spirits high.
~*~
"This map is interesting." Adrian said after walking an hour in circles. "If my map skills are correct then I'm standing right on top of the maggot lair."
Adrian looked down at his feet and saw . . . a bunch of sand. "Huh. That must mean I'm up-side down." He started walking in the opposite direction and heard a burping noise. Then slurping and bubbling and other noises you don't want to hear while alone in the desert. He turned around and saw a bunch of green goo bubbling out of the ground. Then a bunch of little baby maggots started scurrying out, and moved over to where a bunch of vultures were, to eat some dead meat.
Adrian shot a bone prison around them and landed a meteor on top of them. He looked down at his gloves and realized they were what caused this phenomenon of the meteor, and decided to ask Fara about it later. He also realized that where the baby maggots had crawled out of, must be the maggot layer. He shot an ice bolt at the goo turning it into ice realizing again that the spell came from his gloves.
He walked over to the frozen slime, slipped, and fell 10 feet into the maggot lair. Then his map crumbled into dust. He stood up awkwardly and looked around and saw a bunch of dome like passageways with green, slimy doors.
Then he heard some skittering and thousands of maggots and bug swarms started running after him. Then he heard a deep voice from all around him saying, "We are the swarm. Get out of here or die!"
The Necromancer peed in his pants and said in a very weak voice, "Can I have the Horadric scepter?"
"You mean that little piece of junk." The swarm said. "You have to give us something in return. We want some fresh meat that we've never tasted before.
Then the Necromancer said, "OK. If I don't come back in five minutes, you can eat me."
The swarm agreed and he cast a town portal and walk through it. When he got back to town he deposited a big pile of gold and said to Atma, "Give me some of your finest meat." He washed his pants too.
Ten minutes later he walked out with a big barrel of meat and said to himself, "That's strange. It's darker than usual."
He walked back into the town portal.
The swarm said, "You are late! We get to eat you!" Then the swarm saw the meat and they all ran towards it causing the cave to collapse. And out popped the Horadric scepter. He looked at what was left of all the bugs and meat and said to himself, "I'm good."
He suddenly felt stronger and knew how to control his golem better.
He said in a crazed voice, "I've defeated two armies! Beat that Effie and Fury!"
He opened a town portal and walked back to see how his first golem was doing. When he saw his ruined golem he devised another plan. He started building a golem that looked like Deckard Cain and started booby-trapping the room while laughing manically to himself.
When he was done he went up to Fara and asked her about his gloves. Fara said, "These gloves are a very, very unique set item that give you all the sorceress's skills." Then she said, "I've been looking for these for a very long time. I'll trade you these boots that give you all the Barbarian skills for the gloves."
Adrian thought to himself, "Fury's stronger than Effie and if I have these boots then I'll be stronger than Fury! Yippee!"
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Chapter 4: Golems!
"Hmm. This Golem seems interesting." Adrian pondered
"Let's see. The clay golem is risen just like you would raise a skeleton, except not risen from a dead body."
"Hmm." The Necromancer said to himself. And he picked up a pile of dust and started fingering it. He recited the incantation for rising skeletons.
The pile of dust turned into a scrawny figure that looked a lot like a dirt skeleton.
"What is this? This is not what I imagined at all."
Then he continued reading and the book said, "You can control the appearance of the clay golem by creating a miniature sculpture out of the dirt."
So the Necromancer spent all night creating a miniature sculpture that looked a lot like Diablo and painting it red. He stuck it into his backpack.
"Hmm." He thought to himself. "This will scare them REAL good."
Adrian went up to Drognan and bought a pink electric staff. He then went to sleep and set his alarm clock for five AM. It was a fetish trophy that made a rattling sound after you cursed it, to ring at a certain time. Its eyes would rattle like a maraca at the appointed time it was set.
Early next morning, he raised the golem and put the pink electric staff in his hands. He went up to Effie's room and said in a deep, gruffly voice, "Good Morning Effie!"
Effie woke up groggily and saw what she thought was Diablo shooting lightning inferno at her. She let out a blood-curdling scream and threw millions and millions of spiky disks at it.
"Stop!" The Necromancer yelled in desperation. "You're gonna kill it! It was just a prank!"
"Why you little @$$##$%%^ Necromancer!" She yelled with the look of a vengeful corrupted rogue.
Just then Fury rushed in. And saw what he thought was Diablo about to shoot lightning inferno at Effie and he started throwing millions of javelins at it.
"Stop it everybody! It's just my golem!" Adrian yelled.
"Your golem? Where'd you learn how to do that?" Fury asked.
"Oh just from the book I stole from you." Adrian said accidentally.
The Barbarian's eyes start glowing a deep red. The Necromancer simply says, "Woops. Did I say that aloud?"
Fury and Effie start creeping close to Adrian, pinning him to the wall.
"Can't we make some sort of agreement?" Adrian says meekly.
"What can you possibly have that we don't?" Fury asked rudely.
So the Necromancer tells all about the scroll of Radament and how they need to find the two parts to the lost Horadric staff. He ends his speech with, "So you guys can go off and find the staff and take all the treasure while I stay here and fix my golem."
He looked over at his "holey" golem.
Fury gives Effie a sly look and says, "Oh no, we'll stay and 'fix up' the golem, and you can go find the treasure!"
Effie who finally caught on said, "That's a great idea! We'll 'FIX' your golem."
The Necromancer face went white as he realized what they were planning to do.
Then Fury says, "If you don't agree I can always beat you up."
"And I can always give you my . . . shock treatment." Effie said mischievously getting ready to release a lightning trap underneath the necromancer.
Adrian ran out as if his life depended upon it. As he ran out of the town yelling, "I will come back for you Golem!"
~*~
"Poor Golem might not be here when he gets back!" Effie said menacingly, eyeing the golem.
Fury looked over at her and was shocked to see how tussled Effie looked. She had just woken up after getting drunk and didn't really look her best with messed up hair and bags under her eyes. Fury finding her "just out of bed look" funny, snickered under his breath, but the Assassin heard him.
"What's so funny?" Effie asked brushing some of her tussled hair out of her face.
"Nothing." Fury said as Effie narrowed her eyes at him.
"But you have to admit that was a neat trick!" Fury said changing the subject and pointing over at the clueless looking golem who still stood there in shock at being impaled so many times. He had even forgot to follow his master! Who was his master now? It must be one of these two people.
"I need someone to practice my kicks on." Effie said ignoring Fury and walking up to the Golem who was still quite confused. Was this his master?
Effie gave him a good hard kick and the Golem crumbled to the floor. No, that wasn't his master that's for sure. Maybe it was the other person, but he didn't have time to think because he turned into . . . dirt.
"Well that was disappointing!" Effie said crankily. Fury looked over at Effie again and again noticed how she really needed to brush her hair.
"You know, we're not really gonna let Adrian do all the work are we? I mean I'm actually looking forward to killing things." Effie said having second thoughts. "I don't really want to go on a treasure hunt though. I'd rather assassinate things."
Fury looked at her suspiciously and for the first time realized that she may be some sort of assassin.
Just then the sun went out. Murmurs were heard from the outside and Effie ran to where she thought the window was. Instead she ran into Fury.
"Ow!" She yelped as she thumped into Fury's hard chest. "You OK?" Fury asked reaching out to her not really knowing what else to do.
"Man! You must work out!" Effie exclaimed running her fingers over Fury's pectoral muscles.
If it weren't so dark Effie would have seen Fury blushing from embarrassment.
After a moment of awkwardness Effie remembered that it had suddenly gone dark.
"Why is it so dark? I thought it was morning?" Effie asked.
"I don't know." Fury said stumbling over some broken javelins and dirt on the floor. Effie finally made it to the window and looked out.
"I can't see what's going on, but everyone seems to be confused." Effie pondered.
"We should go talk to that wise Drognan guy. Perhaps he knows what's going on."
"At least nobody can see how much we messed up this room." Effie said as her foot scraped against some debris on the ground from Fury's and her throwing escapade.
"At least no one will see your hair." Fury said.
"What?" Effie asked confused. "What's wrong with my hair?"
"It just looked like a rat slept in it, that's all." Fury said not really trying to sound mean.
"Huh?" Effie said still a little groggy. "Not to mention those wrinkles on your face."
"WHAT!!!!!!! I don't have wrinkles!"
"Yes, you do!" Fury argued. "Right under your eyes . . ."
"You lie!" Effie yelled getting ready to go on one of her vengeance quests.
"And those wrinkles that form when you get really mad on your forehead." Fury remembered.
Just then he barely missed a blade being thrown in his direction.
"I DO NOT HAVE WRINKLES!"
"There is no reason to be ashamed of them . . ."
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Effie yelled in frustration. She ran toward Fury in a fury of rage. Unfortunately she tripped over something like broken pieces of the Golem.
The only noise Fury heard was a big thud on the ground. Then he tip toed toward the door and said in a little voice, "I'll just wait outside."
~*~
Adrian was tiptoeing in the desert. He didn't want to meet up with those crazy birds again. He suddenly heard a low hiss.
"I smell flesh," A voice said. "What are you doing in my territory?"
"Oh, I'm just looking for the Horadric staff." Adrian answered a little scared.
"Ah! An adventurer. I always invite adventurers for dinner . . ."
"Well I am a little hungry." Adrian said still not knowing where the voice was coming from. "Shouldn't you invite me to breakfast instead?"
"OK. Follow me." Out stepped a cat like woman and led him deeper into the desert.
The Necromancer thought to himself. "This is a nice person."
They soon came to a cave in the desert. "This is my home." The Cat woman said. She led him into the cave and prepared a meal of chicken on toast and hot cactus coffee.
"Mmm. That smells good." The Necromancer thought. When they finished eating Adrian said, "I had no idea desert breakfast could be so good."
"So tell me about your adventures, sir." The cat woman said.
So Adrian started droning on about his life as the cat woman crept closer and closer to a lever on the wall. As Adrian started telling about meeting Fury and Effie, the cat woman interrupted him saying, "And now your life ends . . ." And she pulled the lever.
The Necromancer ignored her and started telling her about how he scared Fury and Effie and pulled out his back-up golem and raised it. Just then the wall crumbled and hundreds of cat woman with spears and such jumped out and stopped at the sudden appearance of the Diablo/golem. The Necromancer looked up and saw the cat women and said, "Some family you got here."
The original cat woman said to the Golem, "I'm sorry master. I had no idea this was your companion."
The dense Necromancer finally realized what was happening and decided to use his back-up, back-up plan. He sure was prepared. He pulled a little string on the golem, which activated millions of detonators inside his body and it started burning. The main panther woman said, "Please don't be angry with us Diablo. We didn't know."
Then the Necromancer did a ventriloquist act and made his voice sound like it was coming from the Golem saying, "I shall need a sacrifice!"
One scrawny little panther woman walked up and bowed her head before the golem. The Golem did his strongest move (poke) trying to kill the panther woman.
Then Adrian said in his ventriloquist voice, "You must sacrifice yourself because I am not strong enough to kill you." Then Adrian added in, "You shall have a great spot in hell for this."
So the panther woman killed herself and the golem walked onto the body. Adrian said, "Now give me a map of Maggot Lair so I can find the staff. After all I do need to resurrect my brother, don't I?" One of the panther women solemnly walked up and gave him a map. Then the Necromancer yelled without throwing his voice, "BONE WALL!"
The golem trying to copy his master did the same thing. A shield of bone started surrounding the Necromancer, but not the golem. After all golems can't talk. They are just made out of dirt. The Necromancer yelled, "Corpse Explosion!"
The corpse under the golem exploded, exploding the golem, releasing all the bombs inside him. After all the rubble and the explosions stopped, Adrian picked up all the armor and gold lying around. He then suddenly felt stronger and knew how to control his golem better.
"Woo Hoo!" Adrian yelled to no one in particular. "Who cares if they are going to 'fix' my other golem. I could always make a stronger one."
Just then the sun went out. But Adrian didn't notice.
~*~
Effie and Fury both set out ready for adventure.
"Do you think Adrian knows where to go?" Effie asked.
"I'm sure he has his ways. He is a Necromancer you know." Fury answered looking up ahead. At least it was cool without the blazing sun, yet it was hard to see as he scanned the area for any monsters.
Just then a couple of Sand Raider's started attacking them. Effie kicked them and as a final move made a couple flames surround them, killing most of the Sand Raiders. Fury hacked at them with his axes yelling war cries at them every once in a while. After they were all dead, Effie continued with the conversation.
"Yes but we didn't know where the Claw Viper temple was till Drognan told us." Effie admitted.
"We didn't even know there was a Claw Viper temple till Drognan told us." Fury pointed out sarcastically. "You're not worried about him are you?" Fury teased.
"Of course not." Effie said with a glimmer in her eye. "I just want to get him back for that prank he did this morning. Which reminds me, I need to get you back for this morning as well."
Just then some sand maggots attacked them. Effie got out some fire potions and exploded them while Fury had fun jumping on them. After there was nothing left of the bugs except their guts Fury asked, "What did I do this morning? I thought the golem was Diablo too, about to shoot you with lightning inferno! I was simply trying to save you!"
"You were!" Effie said almost teasingly with mock admiration in her voice. "When I become a damsel in distress, I'll let you know."
Fury looked at her confused. Women gave him a headache.
"But I wasn't talking about that!" Effie said scanning the horizon. "I was talking about that little comment you gave."
"About the wrinkles?"
"YES!" Effie said annoyed feeling her face. "I don't really have wrinkles do I? I'm only 25. I'm not supposed to have wrinkles!"
Then she stopped standing in front of Fury. He looked at her in confusion.
"Now be honest." She said seriously. "Do I really have wrinkles?"
He raised his eye wondering what he should say.
"Am I not the most gorgeous creature you have ever seen?" Effie asked teasingly striking a seductive pose. Fury scuffed the dirt uncomfortably. Fortunately for Fury, some Sand Leapers leaped toward them and again they began to fight.
Then some Hell Buzzards provided aerial raids and some more bugs joined the group along with a couple more Sand Raiders.
"They always attack in groups, don't they?" Effie growled annoyed.
After all the monsters where easily killed Fury speculated, "I wonder why we haven't run into any Panther women?"
"Why? You wanna date one?" Effie teased.
"No. I just know that they are prominent in these areas."
Effie shrugged then her eyes narrowed as she realized something. "You know, this is actually boring. These monsters are almost . . . easy!"
"Yeah. I had more trouble with the corrupted Rouges in the West than I am now." Fury answered.
"And I was expecting a challenge!" Effie murmured, her eyes downcast.
After the two walked in silence Effie said, "Too bad Diablo won't be easily killed."
Fury nodded saying nothing still looking out for another ambush. Effie continued to talk. "Because if he was, he would have been killed already and they wouldn't have had to hire me."
Fury stopped in confusion. She had been hired? Perhaps she truly was an assassin. Effie continued walking not noticing she had lost her companion. Fury ran up to catch up with her.
"Look!" Effie pointed to a ruined like temple structure.
"I guess that's the temple." Fury admitted. They stood outside for a while staring at the crumbling structure. Finally Effie broke the silence, "You know, I really thought that was Diablo in my room today. I thought for sure I was dead meat."
Fury not knowing what to say just stood there.
"Now it's good to know I don't have to do this on my own and have people to help me." Effie said patting Fury on the shoulder. "That's the real reason I was worried about that awful Necromancer. When I think of fighting Diablo, well, it really scares me. That's all."
Fury simply said, "Don't worry about it. Diablo doesn't stand a chance with people like me after him." He smiled puffing out his chest proudly.
Effie turned away smiling to herself. Fury seemed to always be so confident and proud.
"Come on." She said playfully. "We've got some oversized serpents to kill. I never did like snakes."
And they both walked into the temple with their weapons ready and there spirits high.
~*~
"This map is interesting." Adrian said after walking an hour in circles. "If my map skills are correct then I'm standing right on top of the maggot lair."
Adrian looked down at his feet and saw . . . a bunch of sand. "Huh. That must mean I'm up-side down." He started walking in the opposite direction and heard a burping noise. Then slurping and bubbling and other noises you don't want to hear while alone in the desert. He turned around and saw a bunch of green goo bubbling out of the ground. Then a bunch of little baby maggots started scurrying out, and moved over to where a bunch of vultures were, to eat some dead meat.
Adrian shot a bone prison around them and landed a meteor on top of them. He looked down at his gloves and realized they were what caused this phenomenon of the meteor, and decided to ask Fara about it later. He also realized that where the baby maggots had crawled out of, must be the maggot layer. He shot an ice bolt at the goo turning it into ice realizing again that the spell came from his gloves.
He walked over to the frozen slime, slipped, and fell 10 feet into the maggot lair. Then his map crumbled into dust. He stood up awkwardly and looked around and saw a bunch of dome like passageways with green, slimy doors.
Then he heard some skittering and thousands of maggots and bug swarms started running after him. Then he heard a deep voice from all around him saying, "We are the swarm. Get out of here or die!"
The Necromancer peed in his pants and said in a very weak voice, "Can I have the Horadric scepter?"
"You mean that little piece of junk." The swarm said. "You have to give us something in return. We want some fresh meat that we've never tasted before.
Then the Necromancer said, "OK. If I don't come back in five minutes, you can eat me."
The swarm agreed and he cast a town portal and walk through it. When he got back to town he deposited a big pile of gold and said to Atma, "Give me some of your finest meat." He washed his pants too.
Ten minutes later he walked out with a big barrel of meat and said to himself, "That's strange. It's darker than usual."
He walked back into the town portal.
The swarm said, "You are late! We get to eat you!" Then the swarm saw the meat and they all ran towards it causing the cave to collapse. And out popped the Horadric scepter. He looked at what was left of all the bugs and meat and said to himself, "I'm good."
He suddenly felt stronger and knew how to control his golem better.
He said in a crazed voice, "I've defeated two armies! Beat that Effie and Fury!"
He opened a town portal and walked back to see how his first golem was doing. When he saw his ruined golem he devised another plan. He started building a golem that looked like Deckard Cain and started booby-trapping the room while laughing manically to himself.
When he was done he went up to Fara and asked her about his gloves. Fara said, "These gloves are a very, very unique set item that give you all the sorceress's skills." Then she said, "I've been looking for these for a very long time. I'll trade you these boots that give you all the Barbarian skills for the gloves."
Adrian thought to himself, "Fury's stronger than Effie and if I have these boots then I'll be stronger than Fury! Yippee!"
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