I definitely did something wrong, since I killed that squid thing, the point I loop back to has reset, right in front of that smaller, but way more intimidating magic casting monster.
Cons: I hate my past self, this thing hates me and can cast long range magic, and is really durable, I would need an actual weapon to actually deal any damage to the thing.
Pros: I have something approaching a weapon, and at the new start of every loop, there aren't any other monsters, but the damned thing summons minions too.
So my days been going great.
Another benefit is that I'm actually able to sprint now, the increase in mutation points I think has brought a noticeable increase in my hand eye coordination, so I'm not shambling around nearly as much any more so that's something, I guess.
Still dying, that still sucks by the way.
As much as I love to reminisce, currently, I'm running away.
It's become a new love of mine, running, great cardio, and you get to see more of the city so that's fun, less fun what the cities on fire constantly and your a literal jogging dead.
The castor takes that moment to launch another wave of fire at me, which clips me as I once again attempt to dodge.
You'd think, that I'd get better at dodging, what with the coordination boost, and in most cases yeah that's true, but the fire is actually pretty fast.
Worse yet, this thing fights like a middle manager, throwing minimum wage part timers at a problem and barely lifting a finger to help outside of taking the credit for the grunts hard work.
Heh, I think I might be starting to lose it…
Well, I can't say the pattern isn't there but I might be projecting on a bunch of monsters that are trying to kill me, another thing to bring up in therapy, I suppose.
Right right, back to it, actually, no.
Yeah, no fuck that, it's not like I have an audience I have to keep the story moving for, I'm gonna talk about what I want- those bastards who have been killing me should unionize!
Maybe then they'll get other hobbies besides bashing my head in!
In other news, I've taken shelter in the ruins of a bodega, or well, some place that kind of looks like a bodega, it was the building on the other side of my original loop point.
from top down this place is kind of like an egg, with this place at the top and where I started at the bottom, and the lava pit in the middle or so.
Not that being in a building is stopping them from attacking me anyway, I mean, why would it? the walls are still human made even if there's some vaguely futuristic vibes to it all, meaning yeah they aren't meant for full on attacks like this.
The lights are -miraculously- still on, the owner must already be dead, if not than they'll have a heart attack from the electrical bill…
Oh and also the massive hole of collapsed ceiling in the middle of the place leading to the roof.
Wouldn't want to go up there, collapsed roofing can be dangerous.
Albeit less dangerous than murderous monsters with bad manners, and and worse management, but that's no reason to disregard safety guidelines.
Anyway, in the back of the store, which seems to at least have some extra reinforcement, there's a closed door, and I need like, just a fifteen minute break from being killed brutally.
There are two doors, one of them is locked, the other isn't.
Entering into the unlocked one, the sounds of humanoid monsters thrashing the place gets muffled, and I surmise where I find myself now in one word.
"Hhriunnnblthhhpfff"
Which is the best my zombie mouth can do in terms of swearing, as I find myself in a single person bathroom.
There's a skeleton, blessedly still dead and unmoving, on the disgusting, stained steel, yet avant-garde toilet.
There's a advertisement board on the wall still blaring some kind of fast food brand into my eyes, but the sound quality is so bad it sounds more like some ancient summoning ritual than an attempt to get you to buy a family combo.
at what seems to be called 'TeGyrOnaughts' the food on display is just, wholly unappetizing in a way that's simply indescribable, like a picture of a man made horror beyond my comprehension advertised as food.
Mostly it looks like a slab of neutral grey bologna slapped between two featureless, burger buns, with something called an Omega Sipp cup behind it, the fluid in the plastic container is neon brown.
Not neon orange, neon brown.
In the corner of the ad, I see in small words 'may not appear as advertised, combo only available in select locations, only available from 6/14/45 to 6/19/45'
It's 2045?!
How the hell did we get to this in only twenty years!?
I knew it was bad -apocalypse and all that- but seriously? Jesus Christ…
Ow, brain freeze…
Wait but, why?
By the time I had finished rubbing my head to soothe the slight discomfort of the sudden headache, the ad has changed to something, a little bit more odd.
The screen turned a very dark green, with neon green list appearing over it, in the top left, in a blocky script simply reads 'CODEX'
Below that there are several green nodes, each with a unique symbol, the first is highlighted in orange, below that is what I assume is the title of the orange node, that being 'STORY OF EARTH'
Below that title, is a list of green stick like things, that all have '???' Over them, the first of these things is highlighted in orange, to the right of the screen is a neon green question mark and a bit of text reading 'Undiscovered Entry' followed by 'Found in Foundations'.
I blink at the screen in confusion for what seems like the hundredth time, and still, nothing changes, okay, let's reason this out.
Codex, that's something like an archive for religious reasons, Or somewhere to store rules, right? I wish I had my dictionary on hand…
'Entry' leads me to believe that this might be for information storage, that if I were to find one of these entries, that it would be sent here, for convenience? But, why have something like this show up in an ad block in a bathroom in the middle of the apocalypse?
And why would this 'entry' be in the foundations, which foundations?
That's like asking someone to crawl underneath a house to find a newspaper.
Like this place wasn't already contrived enough, now there's side quests too!
The thought of side quests brings back memories of playing Oblivion as a teen, and purposefully avoiding the main quest NPCs to go do everything else.
Ahh, the good old days, I heard they had made a remastered version recently, but I had too much work to do before all this shit to hear much about it, let alone play it.
As I stepped back from the codex thingy, the ad shuttered back to how it was before, except now the company was the eye searing blue of something resembling a bring named 'DonHilkErtons' instead of the red of whatever corporate nightmare it was previously.
Exept it now said 'You Brought it Back!' In big bold letters over the same slab of grey cylinder within the same featureless burger buns.
Right…
Outside of the ad and the toilet, what I can only assume is some kind of sink/hand dryer combo was bolted to the wall, also unpainted metal like the toilet, what's with that anyway?
Oh right, 'everything's chrome in the future' that's as good an explanation as anything.
Other than that, there's nothing in the room, not a phone or some kind of medicine that could heal me, Just a spartan, metal shit box with a corpse, hellishly dystopian ads, and nothing else.
Over all, this has been an unpleasant experience and my day is ruined.
When was the last time I actually slept?
The sound of thumping footsteps echoes into the room from just outside the door, and breaks me from my thoughts.
God dammit all...
and just as I think that, the door bursts down, as I suddenly attain a migraine out of nowhere and get caught too off guard to react to the sudden blast of plasma searing towards me.
naturally, I collapse like a house of cards.