Huzzah! I leveled up overnight (and it only took 17,000
randomly generated battles)! That puts
me squarely at Lv. 22. Now I’ve got
access to the special attack Glower and an automatic stat boost to my Defense,
Luck and Food Preparation abilities.
Needless to say, with my already robust culinary skills, the peanut
butter omelet I made for breakfast was phenomenal. It’ll give +7 to my Attack and Defense for
the next five turns! Now if only I could
figure out a way to make a f*****g omelet without peanut butter, I’d be set.
After replenishing my hit points
and mana, I headed to the shops. I got a
Wal-Mart flier over the weekend that promised buy-one-get-one-free on all quest
related items. I wanted be there before the
soccer moms and senior citizens bought up all the elemental weapons, but, in my
haste, I apparently cut off this Orc on the highway. It was obviously a mistake; he’s got this
enormous Chevy Tahoe with an attack of, like, a million and defense up the
wazoo, and I’m driving a dented Mercury Cougar.
That’s not a randomly generated battle that I would ever ask for. Of course, him
being an Orc, he zooms up next to me, lowers his powered window, and starts
mouthing off about how “dirty, hook-nosed Nightblades need to go back to [their]
own country where [they’ve] got [their] own f*****g banks and can drive down
the street however [they] damn-well please.”
Well, that did it. I was a little confused about the bank
comment, but found the rest offensive enough to warrant a battle. My window was partly open already " after
all, air conditioning takes a lot of gold to keep maintained " but I rolled it down the rest of the way. I didn’t
want this jerk to miss a thing. First
off, I gave him both middle fingers, hammering him with a double helping of
Chutzpah, a stat-altering attack that gruesomely lowers defense. Then, while I had him reeling, I unleashed
Glower, whereby an angry, hateful look cast at a foe inflicts massive HP damage
and paralysis. Beaten, bruised, and
rigidly immobile, the Orc’s Tahoe gently veered from it’s lane, collided head
on with a wall of traffic and exploded in a gorgeous eruption of flame and
metal shrapnel.
I collected my experience points and proceeded along my
way.