Something New

Something New is a part in the Wavis D&D Legend.
2 years since the Bognin Ballers had started their investigation in Yuchanea, a new legend emerges.
==Synopsis==
===Chapter 1: Something New===
In a Southern region of Yuchanea, 3 adventurers stumbled across each other; Bear Lee-Even Knowem, a rock gnome; Melinda Lou "Wendy" Thomas, a halfling bard; and Mercutio Marvell, a high elf rogue. Synchronised, they each individually made their way to the same abandoned castle in a town once ravaged by the Black Knight Gang. Instantly, Mercutio proudly announced himself as the lord's youngest son and that he was visiting his uncle's castle - this dishevelled building, Wendy was a woman trying to establish the greatest fast food restaurant in history, and Knowem explained that he was simply looking for some loot. The three decided to temporarily work together to investigate the castle, where they found a door blocked by rubble, save for a small opening in the top left corner. Mercutio somersaulted his way towards it, but misjudged his target and landed head first into a wall, causing him to spring off it like a cartoon character and fall to the ground. Wendy attempted to brute force the door open, but pulled a muscle in her arm, causing her to give up, fortunately, Knowem was able to just cast gust a blow all the rubble away, albeit covering his two new companions in debris. They continued through the door and found that the castle was built in and around a hilltop, with a cavern garden inside. They entered a large cavern space with a hole in the ceiling where the sky was, the light shining down on a chest that Mercutio ventured to pick lock. Inside was a massive collection of novelty spoons - some cool ones, but there were some dated ones of racist depictions of certain races. Knowem convinced Mercutio that his uncle would want him to have the spoons, and shoved about 26 into his pocket, Wendy took about 16, and Mercutio took one and put it under his hat. They continued forth and got two different doors, although one was locked. As they entered an Eastern corridor after that, they saw a mysterious figure in the distance and it turned to look at them. Mercutio shouted, "auntie!", but Knowem immediately pulled his crossbow out and shot at her. The bolt flew threw the air and critically pierced through the figure, horrifying Mercutio. He ran to his auntie and held her in his arms, wailing, while Knowem defended himself saying that she was about to cast a firebolt at him, so he had to shut it down. Mercutio cursed at him, but as the others approached they realised he was mourning over a ghoul; they grew weary that he might have bad brain worms or something and that he was just having a bad schizophrenic episode. While grieving, Mercutio noticed a ring in their auntie's pocket which had key protruding out of it, so the backtracked to the previous door and opened it. Inside was a polite, sentient rock who Knowem immediately wanted to kill, but was stopped by the others. Mercutio discerned that the rock was magically given sentience, so they just let him free, but he didn't get far before being attacked by crows and falling unconscious. They continued through the hallway, where they were jump scared by a wizard. Knowem asked if he could cure his friend of his brain worms, so he pointed his staff at Mercutio, but feeling hostility, he immediately slashed his face open with his rapier, so Wendy panicked and attempted to heal them, but as soon as the wizard got up, he summoned his two apprentices and initiated combat against the trio. The cave wizards spells proved ineffective on Mercutio's brain worms, as the flames he cast from his staff missed him completely, allowing him to run up to him and stab him through the chest, killing him - the wizard's final words being, "you... will ruin... this world", before keeling over his shoulder and spewing blood all over his adversary. The two apprentices backed away and let the trio pass out of fear, where they found a small library with minor spell books the apprentices were being taught. There wasn't anything else of particular note in the room besides a glass box with a novelty spoon in the shape of man with a big head. Mercutio cut a perfect circle out of the glass and held it in his hands exclaiming, "uncle!" Exhausted of his shenanigans, the other two backtracked to the room the ghoul was in, as there was another locked door in there - the key ring worked again. It connected to a large dining hall where a large troll was feasting on some bones - it clocked the Knowem and licked his lips, exclaiming that a rock gnome was the perfect meal, then repeating the same line for the halfling. Mercutio entered the room as the two of them started suggesting not to eat them yet, as there were two wizards they could eat first, persuaded, the troll left the room, but moved a bunch of furniture on the other side to block the door, so that they couldn't escape. Looking for an alternative route, they searched the room for exits, but none seemed glaringly apparent, besides a small little rat's hole. Mercutio digged at it to make it larger, then launched Knowem inside, where he found himself being swept away by a water slide. The other two followed suit and made their way down, picking up a couple bruises from smashing into the walls, although nothing bone breaking. They eventually found themselves in a large elegiac pond with a statue of an angelic figure looking above it. A strange light glowed from small gapes in the roof, although it didn't seem like there was any possible exit. They searched around again, while they took a breather. Mercutio noticed that the statue's face was slightly raised from its chin, almost as if it were wearing a mask - being that they were in Yuchanea, contextually this was likely made in dedication to Adon, and old one of chaos. Meanwhile, Knowem had discovered an opening underneath the pool, where they could potentially get through. They all agreed to swim down, although they quickly discovered that Wendy didn't know how to swim, after she started drowning. Mercutio stayed back to help try teach her some basics, while Knowem made their way through. After swimming through the hole, he emerged in a dark, circular arena where a suit of armour stayed motionless in the centre. Upon stepping out, the suit of armour charged at the gnome and slashed into his body mortally, instantly putting him in critical condition. Wendy and Mercutio finally emerged soon afterwards, where the latter immediately guided the former towards their ally to heal them, as they didn't have dark vision like the other two. Mercutio attacked the armour, but as his sword connected, it fell to pieces and began trying to reanimate. This repeated a couple times, while the three of them attempted to hide from its attacks. Eventually, Mercutio discerned that the creature didn't have any magic on it, meaning that it was something else entirely; ultimately, they figured out that there was actually a creature of some kind with fleshy tendrils emerging from gaps within the armour that were aiming to connect to one another, while reanimating. With this knowledge, Knowem attempted to electrocute them through the armour, which ended up cooking them on the inside, creating a steamed crab-like smell. Secure in this knowledge, Knowem managed to get a hold of the chest plate part and cooked it whole, while Wendy grabbed the helmet and slid her dagger in to kill the Armour Mollusk. After defeating the monster, they started cooking it and had a hearty meal to heal themselves up. Eventually, they discovered that there were eggs in one of the pillars, so they cooked that too, while also finding out the pillars were mostly hollow and you could theoretically climb up them to the surface. They each attempted it and, after a while they managed to escape the dungeon.
== Characters ==
* Mercutio Marvell Protagonist
* Bear Lee-Even Knowem Protagonist
* Melinda Lou "Wendy" Thomas Protagonist
* Polite Talking Rock
* Cave Wizard
* Cave Wizard's apprentices
* Troll
* Armour Mollusk
== Trivia ==
* Something New hosted the seventh year anniversary quest.
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