by Sieghard » Sun Jun 16, 2013 1:17 am

Prymn and his minions were inside Kural Cave. Having walked in deep enough, there was no light that could reach where they currently were.

Thankfully, his minions were experienced adventurers and had torches with them, else they would not be able to see their own feet in such deep darkness. The cave had many stalagmites and stalactites along its path, like any good cave should.

A growl was suddenly heard, making Urorkchwik ask if anyone else had heard it too. They all agreed they had, including Prymn, who laughed.

“Sorry, dood. Must be my stomach, dood.” Said Prymn, who was in fact rather hungry.

“I don’t think it was you, Prymn.” Said Oliver, the party’s archer. It was his real name, and his surname, just by pure coincidence was Queen. Thanks to the attributes of an archer, he could see and hear better than everyone else, and he had heard something moving ahead of the party.

“Undead!” Screamed Potion, the party’s cleric, seeing a rotten bird jump at Rose. Everyone grabbed their weapons, including Prymn who had grabbed many pebbles around the way because they had funny shapes. One of them looked remarkably like a… well never mind what. What’s important is that he started throwing his collection at the ugly, zombie avian.

“Take that, dood!” He screamed, throwing the obscene shaped stone at the zombie. By pure and total luck, he hit its eyes, making it blind. That, which normally would have been a critical hit, did not do anything to the zombie, as it felt no pain and did not need to see to feel the living creatures by him.

The fight was dragged on for a while - the creature's level was higher than the party's average level, which was 60. It was not strong enough as they could deal with one, but they tried their best to end it quickly, as another zombie could appear at any moment. Prymn prepared to throw his last stone at the creature which suddenly jumped over Rose again.

“Prinny, dood!” He said, throwing the stone at the zombie who was nearly pecking Rose’s face. With the skill of an anime ninja, blood shot eyes, and the accuracy of an elder karate master, catching a fly with chopsticks, he threw it as hard he could, aiming at the creature’s face.

And with such incredible skill, he missed. The stone went much higher than the creature’s head, so high in fact, it hit one of the many stalactites at the top of him, causing it to drop and impale the undead creature.

You have learned the skill:Throwing Weapon Mastery

Throwing Weapon Mastery (Lv. 1 0%):

Increases attack power with throwing weapons 10%

Increases attack speed with throwing weapons 3%

Increases the attack range of throwing weapons by 1.5%

Higher levels permit you to equip more complex throwing weapons.

Killing a creature of much higher level was awarded you extra exp points!

Level up.

Level up.

Level up.

The creature, which was at level 100, awarded Prymn with so much EXP, he leveled three times in a row, even after the EXP had been divided by the five party members.

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“Awesome, dood!” Said Prymn, happy with his lucky shot, as he spun around like a ballerina.

“Thanks, Prymn! You’re my hero!” Loudly said Rose, as she hugged Prymn, squeezing him tightly. Well, although it was true he had killed the creature, the rest of the party would have done so too, even if Prymn had not thrown his stones. Rose was their friend, so they put up with her… eccentric personality. But to everyone else, she was bird shit insane.

“Good idea, aiming for the stalactite.” Said Oliver, who was amazed that he had not thought to do so before.

“Yeah, chwiik!” Said Urorkchwik, surprised by the useless blue bird, who was not so useless. After that, in his mind, Prymn became one of their own, and not the emergency food supply.

“Was it his wife?” Asked Potion, as the corpse belonged to a crow-like avian.

“No, it’s not.” Said Rose, still hugging Prymn.

“Yeah, dood! Unless his wife is male, dood!” Explained Prymn, who could tell the difference between a male and female avian. Rose could too. Did I mention she is strange? A few times? Okay.

“But she could be one of them, chwiik!” Said Urorkchwik, thinking that a cave filled with such monsters would have been fatal to an old bird, like Kurkaw’s wife. Everyone else thought the same, except for Prymn who started to scream angrily.

“No way, dood! She’s alive, dood!” He said, jumping and waving his wings in front of Urorkchwik, who smiled at the comical sight.

“Prymn’s right. We can’t give up. Maybe she is still alive, hidden somewhere.” Said Potion, whose benevolent nature, impeded him from leaving an innocent behind, even if he died in the process.

“Let’s go then.” Said Oliver, looking for any other enemies. Everyone agreed and started walking deeper into the cave, ready to face anything that jumped out of its shadows. Prymn picked up as many stones as he could, since it was the only way he could help the party. Plus, throwing things was fun.

The zombie, which had dropped a unidentified ring, was the only monster they had seen so far, and it continued to be so for a long time. That is, until they reached a path which split in two.

“Err… Which one do we go into?” Asked Rose, hoping Oliver could see something that showed the right path.

“Beats, me.” Said Oliver, both paths were nearly identical in size and neither seemed to be populated by anything.

“Just pick, one. chwiik!” Said Urorkchwik, since any path was better than standing around doing nothing. He had great expectations for this cave, after the zombie’s attack. But nothing else had happened, pissing him off.

“Right one, dood! It’s the right path, dood.” Said Prymn, just because right was right. They followed his suggestion, since any path would have been fine. And perhaps he had picked the right path as another zombie jumped over Rose, while another one crawled on the floor, having lost its legs.

“Not again! This so disgusting!” Screamed Rose as she jumped back, evading the creature’s attack. And so started their epic fight against the zombies. To see how it ends, you must read the next prinnystatic chapter of The Misadventures of Penguin Peril, although lately, he did not appear much on it!