"Come on guys," Stercus cried to the others. "Let's go!"

"Stercus is waiting for us," Pan said, a large distance away. "Shouldn't we follow?"

"Yeah," Krys replied, shaking and shivering as if she was stuck in a blizzard. "Let's go."

She then continued to go forward, starting with one small footstep and continuing with another.

"What's wrong?" Stercus went all the way back to see what took his two friends a while to catch up.

"It's nothing Sterc," Krys replied with a face that implied it was anything but. "Just go on ahead, we'll catch up."

"You know you don't have to come if you don't want. I mean, I never asked you to come with me."

"What do you mean I don't have to come? If I'm not there you'll die!"

"You seem more afraid that you'll die though," Pan pointed out.

"Well, what can go wrong when I have to fight a horde of man-eating blobs that'll kill me in seconds and my only reinforcements are a kid obsessed with guns and a sex offender?"

"Well," Stercus said. "You could get abandoned, sacrificed, used as a meat shield, maybe even-"

"Sterc, that was a rhetorical question."

"Reh-torry-cole?"

"It means you weren't supposed to answer."

"Oooh! That makes sense!"

Intelligence stat increased due to a special action!

INT +1

"Don't freak out Krys," Pan said. "We have potions to last us for days and a ton of new equipment, we won't die."

Speaking of equipment, this seems like a good time to mention the new armor and weapons the crew has. Stercus is equipped with brown, leather armor adorned with tough iron gauntlets, elbow pads, knee pads, and boots, along with a metallic black chest plate that is resistant to piercing attacks. The iron attachments are adorned with small spikes that can't really hurt anything, and a black cape goes over his back. These don't really add anything, but the designer thought they looked cool. Sheathed on his back is an iron longsword with a brown handle. It was enchanted to do more damage within the 24 hour period after purchase, but Krys had a feeling Stercus wouldn't use it much.

Pan was adorned in a large and bulky set of iron armor, similar to those worn by medieval knights. The only differences were that he didn't by a helmet to complete the set and that the weapon he held was far from what a knight would use. Pan held a large, wooden club in his left hand, one decorated with various red marks and symbols; all of which didn't mean anything. Again, the designer thought they looked cool and worked quite hard to get it to be as cool as it is now. Not like Pan cared anyway. On his back was a backpack enchanted to hold up to a small room full of items, which currently held most of the other things they bought, the only exceptions being their gear, which they wore, and Stercus's stickers, which were in his pocket.

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Meanwhile, Krys looked like she came from a completely different culture. She wore an outfit resembling a Japanese kimono, garnished with beautiful yellow flowers on a red background. She even tied her hair in a bun to complete the look. While the equipment had to be obtained from another country, making it quite pricy, the boosts it provides to the user's speed was too great for Krys to pass up. On her back was a small bow and a quiver of enchanted lightning arrows. She packed them after hearing that blob-like creatures were weak to lightning attacks, but it did cost her quite a bit. After all, all of this gear came out of her wallet, so she was practically dying in a financial sense right now.

"Krys," the young Stercus said with his stickers in his hands. "If you don't want to go that's okay, but at least teach me how to use these."

"Well-"

"Please?" Stercus tried as much as he could to make those puppy-dog eyes he kept hearing about, but ended up just making the veins show in his eyes and his eyes looking like they will pop out.

Krys chuckled a bit seeing this. "Alright," she said. "Give them to me."

Charisma stat created due to special action!

CHR +1

"I demonstrate it to you with this brick," Krys said with a brick in her hand. Don't ask me why she has a brick because I'm just as clueless as you on that matter.

Krys peeled off one of the stickers and placed it on the brick.

"All you have to do now is throw it," she explained. "Watch."

Showing off to the wide-eyed Stercus Krys threw the brick as far as she could. It went over some trees and traveled for a considerably far distance until it started to fall down, hit the floor, and stop.

...

...

And it stayed there.

"AMAZING!" Stercus said. He proceeded to use to other 49 stickers in the pack on random sticks and rocks, throwing them far without them returning.

"HAHAHAHA!" Pan laughed at it as if it were the greatest joke of all time.

Krys was stunned. It was hard to find any words of disappointment, but she was clearly upset to waste some of her money on defective stickers.

"Maybe I should've gone with my gut after all," she mumbled.

Pan suddenly stopped laughing.

Stercus stopped playing around.

Krys looked up.

The earth rumbled as a stampede of black blobs approached the group.

The Jabberwocky have arrived.

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General Info Stats Spells

Name: Stercus Pauls STR 27 Ignis Gloriae Age: 13yrs 24days SPE 25 (+20) Fireball HP: 38/38 INT 22 Level: 8 DUR 22 (+20) Exp: 32/256 LCK 20 Spells Known: 1 MGE 20 Armor: Malice's Heart (+20 DUR, +20 SPD) CHR 1