The Haiku Dungeon 4
You notice a hidden corridor and duck down it.
- or
- or
You make your way further down the corridor.
While wandering through the haiku dungeon, you stumble into a small room with a couple of tables, some chairs, an EZ-Bake Oven, and some vending machines. Looks like you've found the Monster Break Room, where the monsters come to unwind in between disemboweling adventurers.
You see a samurai shaking one of the vending machines and cursing. He looks over at you.
"Guess which one I want.
Hit the button and get it.
Guess right and you live."
You look at the items in the vending machine. Looks like it sells everything from used leather-studded boxers to cellphones.
| Push the button for ramen. |
Oh tasty ramen
does not exist, but this stuff
pleases samurai.
- or
"Fool, I hunger not!"
The samurai draws his sword:
proxy seppuku.
- You have failed the Most Extreme Haiku Dungeon Challenge
| Get a tiny plastic zmobie. |
Toys for Saumrai?
Do not toy with warriors.
Now you have one arm.
- You have failed the Most Extreme Haiku Dungeon Challenge
| Buy the boxer shorts. |
Fortified chones.
Samurai forgot his shorts,
you help gird his loins.
- or
Angry samurai:
"I'm not into that weird stuff!"
Decapitation.
- You have failed the Most Extreme Haiku Dungeon Challenge
Occurs at The Haiku Dungeon. (Does not occur after you have passed this stage of the Challenge).
Notes
- Part of the Haiku Quest. If this is the first or third room you encounter, the correct response is the five-syllable "Buy the boxer shorts." If this is the second room, the correct response is the seven-syllable "Push the button for ramen." Either way, you move on, either to the next room or to successful completion of the quest.
References
- Japan, whose culture lends the Haiku Dungeon its haikus and many of the Most Extreme Haiku Dungeon Challenge challenges, is famous for having vending machines with a wide variety of strange items.
