There is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns

7: Innocence & Gobs

Gob picked up another 'room as they wandered the forest. A few more sticky flowers and a few branches in his arms. Master Delta needed more 'rooms, her dungeon was becoming filled with them and that had to mean she loved them that much.

Except in her special room, Gob understood. The orby room had to look impressive! Maybe it could do with some paint or sheep skins on the wall but Gob was not one to suggest silly things to the master.

Gob dreamed of a giant mushroom holding the master orb! Such... 'roomness. Gob sighed, his tusks making his squat face looked delighted.

A branch broke and Gob turned, branch in one hand. He snarled as his brother, Hob came running with a large rock in hand.

They paused as a little man stared at them. The long hair and puffy fur it wore made the manchild look like some lamb. Hob hesitated and then looked to Gob for guidance.

"Man see us..." he said, clearly unhappy about being snuck up on by a manchild. Hob grunted.

"Smash?" he wondered and the manchild made a mewling sound and fell back as she tried to turn too fast.

Normal gob culture would dictate that if hungry, manchild was food. If full... it was toy. But this was no longer about Gob ways anymore.

A new element existed for them.

Delta ways.

"I don't... want to kill people." Delta, the safe protector and rescuer of him and his brother, did not want man blood in her name.

"No smash. Let go... no time for games," Gob reminded and quickly gathered up his forest bounty. Hob snorted and made a dismissive growl towards the lamb child. It got up and ran for the break in the trees where the forest ended and fields began. It stopped to look back and Gob gave it one last look before he ran off towards the dungeon. He heard another man calling, where there was manchilds there was plenty of mans.

One on one, they made gobs look weak,

To beat a man, a gob must be clever, quick and ready to die, or at least bring lots of other gobs. Gob grinned as he ran into the dungeon a few minutes later.

To beat a man in a dungeon, a gob only had to collect 'rooms.

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Delta pondered that she kept missing the changes in her menu due to her short attention span.

She hovered in the boss room, watching with pleasure as Bacon swallowed another mushroom. Her feelings towards these ignorant fungi was quite odd but Delta just accepted it. Aside from the vile taste, the mushrooms gave her an ample target of focus her anger on targets she could actually affect.

So, after focusing again, she looked at a new upgrade purchase she had missed.

Upgrade the Core room to reflect the status of having a first-floor boss: 20 DP
Upgrade the Core room to reflect the status of consuming many mushrooms: 20 DP

Only 1 upgrade from floor 1 can affect the Core room. The other option will be locked.

Oh no. Whichever choice would Delta be forced to pick? What grand choice would she be forced to give u-

Delta mashed the boss upgrade 'button' with a furious scream.

Death to the mushrooms! Vile little demons, Delta would only spare her Mushys!

Fran just shook his head at her voice. Delta felt her face go pink and she quietly left the room as she had forgotten Fran, as well as all her monsters, could hear her. The Core room was grinding and shifting as she approached.

It didn't take long to settle into its new decor. The singular earth spear that held her orb was now replaced with a pillar rising from the ground and another reaching down from the ceiling.

The two pillars met at her Core and sealed it into place. The orange light glowing slowly, looking like it had been unearthed and a stone platform around the middle of the room had been erected around the pillar as if to worship the orb in some manner. Only three steps separated the platform from the soil.

On either side of those steps was two medium statues of Fran on top of Bacon, holding their spears above the steps like a door arch one had to cross under. The two statues like mirrors, perfectly similar down to what Delta could see. The details weren't amazing but it was good enough that Delta had no trouble making out Fran's eyes in the slit of his helmet.

The pillars holding her orb had six sides and on the side facing the stairs. The title 'Sir Fran, the Pig Knight' was carved clearly,

It still left a lot of names for the other six sides, more if the top pillar could also hold names... and an almost endless amount if names could share space on a side...

Delta walked slowly around the room, feeling pride glow in her chest. Sure, she didn't know this would be the result but Fran... the boss room... her new Core room.