Paper Mario 1 and a half
Chapter 3
As Mario and Bow finished warping, it leads to a gate, and behind that gate lied the graveyard. Mario walked up to the gate, touched it, and was suddenly turning black.
"Mario, are you okay?" Bow asked.
"What the hell! Why am I turning black!" questioned Mario.
And it was true; Mario's skin was nearly black, and it was starting to turn his clothes black. Once Mario's whole body was black, a large skull appeared over Mario's body and there were many death objects surrounding Mario. In seconds, Mario stopped moving.
"M-Mario?" said Bow in a shaky voice.
"Fool! I am the Skull of Perilous Death! Your friend Mario has been cursed, but he isn't dead. However, he WILL die very shortly. To make him stay alive, you will need the Refreshing Potion. And to do that, you will need to find it in the graveyard!" said a strange voice.
"Tell me more about this curse, now!"
"Fine, read the ruddy article." Said the voice, and it slammed the page to Bow. Bow read it, and it said,
Shodead Curse
Death in a short time
The Shodead Curse is a curse that surrounds you in many skulls when activated (which can be activated by merely touching the object the curse is on). After the skulls appear, the victim slowly turns black, from the skin and then to the clothes. If you are seeing this, then you better have the Refreshing Potion, or the victim has 2 hours of life left. If you are caught in this potion, then you will be pretty much dead, not moving at all and not even breathing. It is very unusual, but the curse is known to make the victim breathe for 2 hours, longer than the 5 minute period. Now, for how it got made. First, you need a Curse Maker Kit, which is ONLY given to the people who CAN be trusted with it. Once you have the box, you need some acid, liccotash, primelleaves, and a full skull of the race.
INGREDIENTS:
1 Medium Size Curse Maker Kit
3 cups of pure acid
1 teaspoon of Liccotash
4 primelleaves
1 skull of the race
HOW TO MAKE: First, take out a small bowl from the kit and put the acid in the bowl. Once piping hot, drop on Primelleaf at a time and put the next one in once the other one is brown. Once all 4 are in and they are all brown, get ready for a tough step! First, put on the Ultra Titanic Gloves and pull the leaves out of the acid. Pour the leaves on the skull, and then pour the Liccotash inside the skull. Toss it in the acid, and wait for 1 hour. Once the skull is gone (the substance should be milky white), grab the Super Transmognifier and suck up the substance, and spray it at the object, such as a gate. It only goes on the object, so if it reaches like a wall of something, then it will stop. You are done! Now it only hurts the race of the thing!
C. B. Science Mader Dgran
"You know, girlie, that since you read it, you wasted 30 minutes, so you got 1 hour and 30 minutes left…" said the voice softly.
" I got to get going!" exclaimed Bow, and she dropped the paper.
Bow looked around for a different path, and she thought that she could go along the sides. After many minutes of thinking, she at last floated along the wall, and was then rushing along the sides forward. Once she reached the end, she turned and followed the wall to find a back gate, curse-free! She rushed to open it, but suddenly a whirlpool pulled her down into some underground passage.
"Ohhh shit, that scared me!"
Once she fell, she realized she couldn't float, but only jump! It looked like she was in some kind of underground level. Without thinking, she moved forward, jumped the gap, and then entered a door.
This room was empty, except for a zombie-looking goomba. She approached to fight the thing.
Bow: 50 HP
Goomdead: 8 HP
Bow uses Smack 4 damage!
Goomdead uses Scream Bow's attack power is cut in half for 2 turns!
Bow: 50 HP scared
Goomdead: 4 HP
Bow uses Smack 2 damage!
Goomdead uses Deadbonk 4 damage!
Bow: 46 HP scared
Goomdead: 2 HP
Bow uses Smack 2 damage! Foe has been killed! 3 EXP and 7 coins!
BOW
HP: 46/50
ATTACK: 4
DEF: 0
EXP: 3/10
COINS: 7
After the dead goomba died, it leaved behind a key. Bow grabbed the key, but no exit nor a door! After many long minutes, it just hit her. She then turned invisible, and a switch appeared. After hitting the switch, a door appeared in a corner. She used the key to unlock it, and she then entered through the door.
In this room, there were stairs going down and ledges in the background. In the middle she saw…Kolorado!
"Help me!" screamed Kolorado. Bow came down to fight the Lava Bubbles, and before the fight, Kolorado said, "Hey, Bow! Thank goodness you came! No time to talk, though. Here is an artifact I found!" said Kolorado.
He handed her the artifact and she got the Fire Shield Badge. After equipping it, Bow and Kolorado went to fight the Lava Bubbles.
Bow: 46 HP
Kolorado: 20 HP
Lava Bubble 1: 9
HP
Lava Bubble 2: 9 HP
Bow used Smack on Lava Bubble 1 4 damage!
Kolorado used Shell Attack on lava Bubble 1 2 damage!
Lava Bubble 1&2 attack Bow 8 damage total!
Bow: 38 HP
Kolorado: 20 HP
Lava Bubble 1: 3
HP
Lava Bubble 2: 9 HP
Bow uses Smack on Lava Bubble 1 4 damage! Lava Bubble 1 is dead!
Kolorado uses Shell Attack on Lava Bubble 2 2 damage!
LB2 attacks Kolorado. 3 damage!
B&K attack LB2 6 damage!
Bow: 38 HP
Kolorado: 17 HP
Lava Bubble 1:
DEAD
Lava Bubble 2: 1 HP
LB2 attacks Bow 4 damage!
Bow attacks LB2 4 damage! Lava Bubble 2 is dead! 8 EXP and 10 coins!
LEVEL-UP!
BOW
LEVEL: 2
HP: 55/55 (+5)
ATTACK: 6 (+2)
DEF: 1 (+1)
EXP: 11/10
COINS: 17 (+10)
KOLORADO
LEVEL: 2
HP: 25/25 (+5)
ATTACK: 4 (+2)
DEF: 2 (+1)
EXP: 14/10
COINS: 10 (+10)
"Well, those dude's are gone. We better start trying to get out of this dump!" said Kolorado.
Bow agreed, and they both walked to the end of the place. Once Kolorado saw how high they had to climb, he exclaimed, "Ohhh shit! Look how high that is! We can never climb that high…unless we had my Hook!"
Before Bow could ask what he meant, Kolorado swung the hook at the top of the first platform, and once it attached, he tied the rope to a nearby twig and said to go up the rope. After an archeologist moment, they reached onto the platform. After repeating several times, they reached a door. They slammed it open and both entered.
This room was a large pit, but at the top, there was moonlight!
"This will be a piece of cake!" said Kolorado, and using the hook, they started to make their way at the top. Once they jumped out, they were on a platform in the middle of poisonous water, but in front of them was the back gate!
"How do we get over there?" asked Bow curiously.
"That I'm not…er…sure." Kolorado admitted.
"Hey, I see some wood behind us!"
"Really!"
"Yeah!"
And together, they made some sort of sled, but there was one piece of wood left. So they took it to put over the gap. As soon as they were in front of the gate and gap, Bow said, "I still can't float! Maybe I might have to wait for something!"
They laid the board across the gap; Bow walked across it and opened the gate. She then looked at the haunted clock in the graveyard and exclaimed, "Holy shit! We only got 3 minutes to find the antidote!"
They scanned the graveyard until Bow found it behind Goombario's tombstone.
"Bingo! Now, we just need- OMG! WE ONLY HAVE 8 SECONDS?" screamed Bow.
"No problem!" said Kolorado as if he had the solution all along.
Kolorado pulled out the Hook, used it to swing over the cursed gate, and Bow stuffed the antidote inside Mario's throat with 1 second left. Within seconds, Mario was back to normal.
"What happened?"
"You were immobilized, and nearly died!"
"Is that why I have some horribly nasty liquid in my throat?"
"Yes!"
"Wait, what's Kolorado going here!"
"I found him in this place, but no time, we need to revive Goombario.
Well, that was what happened! Stay tuned for Chapter 4! Also, it may sound short since all they have to do is revive Goombario, but it isn't that easy!
