<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">Speckled red mushrooms, or as referred to out of character in tame, "power up shrooms" are a useful one time consumable item.  A player can eat the mushrooms and immediately retry any combat or challenge.  In out of character terms, you can consume the mushrooms and re-roll any roll that you don't like the result of.  You must take the second roll however.  The caveat is that the mushrooms always come with some sort of random side effect.  It is impossible to know what this side effect might be, it is always temporary, usually lasting no longer than one in game day at the most.  Speckled red mushrooms may also be sold to vendors in almost any location, and are often found on vendors for sale near locations where these mushrooms might be found.<br/><br/>Further OOC information:<br/><br/>In this version of the game when your character earns gold, it directly translates into points.  Likewise you spend your 'points' instead of having to carry gold.  You need to use your points wisely since the object of the tournament is to gain as many points as possible, but judicious use of spending the points as currency can carry great advantages later down the line.<br/><br/>In this town you will find the first "inn" that your character can rest at.  Resting at an inn lets you set your character's "respawn location" and if you die or are sent back to your respawn location, you will appear just outside of the Inn.  All Inns share an instanced version of the same interior, allowing you to interact with other players, however there is no hostile actions allowed, and no points can be gained or lost while inside the Inn.  However no viewers can see inside the Inn either, so your heat score will slowly degrade the longer you spend inside an inn.  Resting at an Inn is always free, but you always exit back to the world at the same place you entered the Inn, no matter what.  Still there is some tactical advantage in conversing with other players of the game that may be inside the shared instanced Inn space that would make spending time there worth it.<br/></div></div><br/><br/>The froglok bowed his head once and let out a low rumbling croak then jumped off, splashing down a fair distance away in the swamp before bounding away again and leaving the slime and muck covered elf standing at the long makeshift wooden 'road' that lead across the swampy waters towards the town.  She'd come this far without donning her clothing, why not see what happened if she continued to do so?  It wasn't like the clothing offered any actual protection anyways.  So making her way across the mossy logs that made up the makeshift road she found herself at the stairs leading up to the small village.  There at the top of the stairs stood two guards, polearms in their hand and crossbows hanging from their belts.  Obviously they'd seen her approach, but they didn't seem to have any reaction to her state of filth coated nudity.  One on the left spoke, with an obvious canned speech,<strong> "Greetings adventurer, welcome to swamphome, gateway to the deserts of Ro to the north and the Innul Swamp to the south.  Our village offers master trainers for necromancers and slimegirls."</strong><br/><br/>Well now.  Tialyn didn't know anything about those two classes, but she did know that this game had 'advanced' classes that weren't offered at character creation.  Maybe the trainers here would allow her to advance on one of those paths?  But she didn't know much about them, or much about any of the advanced classes.  This also seemed to be a small village, maybe one of the larger cities would offer a wider variety?<br/><br/>The guard continued,<strong>"We have a boat that can take you to the city of Freeport, if you wish to avoid crossing the desert of Ro, assuming you can pay the cost.  We have a blacksmith in town that sells basic arms and armor, and a master leatherworker.  As well as general goods merchants for any supplies you may wish to stock up on before heading into the swamp or the desert.  A bath house is available for a price, and of course, any adventurers are free to stay at our Inn for as long as needed."</strong><br/><br/>The first guard's speech stopped suddenly, the mechanical pre-scripted dialogue having finished, and the second guard said,<strong>"Greetings adventurer, can I offer directions?"</strong><br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character sheet</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatright"><div align="center"><em>click to enlarge<br/>(https://i.imgur.com/EiCJ46W.jpg)<br/>Tialyn Luxora</em></div></div><br/><br/><strong>Character:</strong> Tialyn Luxora<br/><br/>Score: 122<br/>Heat: 31<br/>Hero/Whore: 0/5<br/><br/><strong>RL Name:</strong> Callie Liddle<br/><br/><strong>RL Age:</strong> 20<br/><br/><strong>Mental Strength:</strong> 5<br/><strong>Mental Agility:</strong> 5<br/><strong>Mental Discipline:</strong> 2<br/><br/><strong>Items:</strong><br/>Speckled Red Mushrooms x1<br/><br/><strong>Advantages:</strong><br/><br/>i) Intuition - Our heroine might not be book-smart, but she has a knack for figuring things out. ("This is the end that shoots bullets, right?") Beginners sometimes get lucky, after all...And sometimes, on the virtual battlefield, a good guess is better than all the knowledge in the world! <br/><br/>ii) Attractive - No two ways about it...Our heroine's *hot*. She's not just a babe virtually, she's hot IRL too...Which makes her very popular indeed, on both fronts. (The fans seem to love it, and who can blame them?)<br/><br/>iii) Minor Celebrity - Streamer - Callie already has built a decent following on her stream.nn page.  She's going to have a fan base that's going to cheer her on and try to help her in game as supporters instead of going in as an unknown.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Flaws:<br/></strong><br/>i) Vain - It's hard to be a streamer without being just a *bit* of an attention whore. And our girl has it *bad*. She just loves the adulation of her fans...And she's oh-so-willing to do what it takes to keep them interesting. (This isn't just showing off - She's more likely to take risks, even when they'd work against her.)<br/><br/>ii) Trouble Magnet - It happens. If there's a one-in-a-million chance that something could go wrong...It *will*, and she'll probably be right at the heart of it. Things just keep getting drawn to her, one way or another. <br/><br/>iii) Livestreaming - The world is watching her, not just in game, but also her real life as she goes through this lewd quest.  Any failures to her heat rating are going to more severe, as people are seeing that failure on two fronts. <br/><br/><br/><strong>Fetishes:<br/></strong><br/>i) The Gross / Ugly<br/>ii) The Undead<br/>iii) Goblinoids<br/><br/></div></div>