Intermission 6 Page 16
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Ricki sells one of the group’s shields and suits of leather armour, as well as a spiked buckler and greatsword. She uses the money she gets, as well as the 8 coins leftover after the previous dungeon, to buy a pair of torches, another silver ring for Macadamia, two sets of thieves’ tools, and a pack mule.
With no renovations being done just yet, the various guests say their goodbyes and return to their homes. Lara, having decided to sit this dungeon out, waves as Ricki, Lohk, Kamau, and Macadamia leave the manor.
“Good doing business with you, as always. Let me show you your new work animal before we head for the dungeon. I left him munching on grass over by the wall, since I figured you’d want him. You always complain about not being able to bring me enough treasure, after all.”
“I don’t think that’s quite how I phrased it, but yeah, sure!”
“There he is, right over there.”
“So my choices are between this thing following me around, and a rat hiding in my clothes?”
“Squirrel’s already hiding under your hat.”
“So it is. You can take the donkey, then.”
“It’s actually only half a donkey.”
“Ah, that explains why its legs are so short.”
Paws assures the group that despite his size, the mule is capable of carrying fairly heavy loads and navigating a dungeon environment with no difficulties. All that remains is to assign him to either Ricki or Lohk.
We should name the MULE Molly
This is the only acceptable name
Rock and Stone!
We should name the mule Haroldina Van Twiggenford, the Utmost Carrying-Est of Material Goods
Harold for short haha
I like “Reginald” from GathersIngredients’ suggestion, would happily trade Haroldina for Reginald (and keep the rest of the name)
Half Donkey Pun Name Suggestion: Don (or The Don)
Half Horse Half Donkey Pun Name Suggestion: Horkey
(Or Donse if you want to be mean and give a name that sounds like Dunce.)
Honkey would work too!
Oh! Only now I see that this word actually already exists and that it is a derogatory term.I had no idea. I’m sorry everyone.
I vote for Don. Fits the mule’s swag.
We should name mule Hus.
Short for “Humanity Sin”.
If you aren’t sure why, google how mules are made.
He looks like a Reginald (and you call him Reg, if you don’t want to type out the whole name) to me. 😀
From the character page he “only” has 5 slots, but in every slot you can put an item with any weight (because on the mule it will be reduced to 1 weight per item). And the owner can trade any stuff with him as free action (as long as the owner has enough room, that is), so that’s good, too.
I’d say “good” is an understatement 🙂 It works like an 5 extra sizeless inventory slots that can even get you extra 3 atk in dire times. Of course with 5hp and 0def, it’s risky, but then, Kamau.
One thing that surprises me is that it is … SMALLISH. Ok. I get it. We really want the mule to be able to follow Ricky through ricky-only holes/etc, go to higher floors, etc, but I can’t imagine how i.e. Macadamia lifts a PACK MULE fully-packed with 5 full plate armours 😀
Of course Macadamia can lift a pack mule. It’s a master criminal thing. You wouldn’t understand.
alternate name suggestion: Safe (since we’ll be using him as a walking one most likely and it’s also nice and short)
Aaw, Lara is planting the mimic! I wonder what will grow up there if they don’t forget to properly water it. Maybe pink tentacle shrubbery?
Lara has now finished her farming for the dungeon. Whatever that mimic grows better be worth 1 gold by the time we get back…
I suggest we name the mule the Four Hooves of Death!
Or Hooves, for brevity.
I think we should assign it to Lohk. Ricky will be probably busy scouting and fighting, and have more enc slots if she temporarily drops a thing or two. Lohk’s when alone is more suited for easy fights which won’t endanger the mule even if we use its kick.
Lohk also has very few enc slots and relatively low atk and def. Mac is a tank compared to her 4 def.
Giving her mule will:
I think Ricki is somewhat more likely to open chests, because of lockpicking, but much less likely to be actually picking up items. Honestly not really sure which way the assignment should go.
Given that the one unlocking chests is Ricki, let’s keep the mule on Ricki
It’s pretty simple, but I think I like “Pockets” as a name for the pack mule.
Bill, the pony from Lord of the Rings.
I like this suggestion. I also thought about Dapple the donkey or Rocinante the horse from Don Quixote. Dapinante the mule?
That changeling is surely gonna come back, I can feel it. I wonder if there is there a way to brand it permanently?
It’s been defeated, and now has been buried/planted. Are you sure you meant THAT changeling? Technically I can see it returning as a zombie mimic (mimimbie?) or some aggressive mutated plant.
For posterity, we also sold the potion of rage to be able to afford all of the gear.