They've Got Everything You Want
As you stride across the... Um. Whatever you call the front part of a temple. Atrium? Nostrum? Skrillex? Something like that. Anyway, as you stride across it, Mer-kin priests appear out of alcoves and from behind pillars, and drift toward you in their blood-red robes, with their ridiculous long sleeves trailing behind them.
They form ranks around you and escort you toward the center of the temple -- as though you were too thick to get there on your own! You take a moment to reflect on how much of a pain in the ass these guys are, and how sick you are of them -- of all Mer-Kin in general, in fact. If you never saw another one of these jerks again, it would be too soon.
You start to wonder if maybe there's something you can do to assure that you never see another one. Wipe them out. Extermination. Genocide. A gurgling chuckle escapes your lips as you imagine somehow opening a magma trench in the middle of their city and boiling the bastards alive.
The priests surrounding you stop suddenly, breaking you out of your reverie. They each take two paces (swims?) backward, revealing that you're standing in the middle of a seven-sided pentagon engraved in the floor. Looking at it makes your eyes hurt.
"What's going on here, you miserable vermin?" you gurgle at them, as three of them pull little pots of something red out of their sleeves and start finger-painting complicated squiggles around the perimeter of the engraving.
"Preparation."
You turn to face the speaker -- another identical robed priest, who holds a bowl toward you. The bowl appears to have been carved from a single huge ruby, and its facets glisten as you take it from the priest. It's full of a thick, oily gray liquid, which smells awful.
"What's this?" you ask.
"A sacrament. Drink."
"Thanks, that's very informative. Idiot! What's it made of?"
"Anchovies."
"Ugh! I hate anchovies!"
"Yes. Drink."
| Drink. |
You take a deep breath, hold it, and pour the gray sludge down your throat. Uggh!
 | You acquire an effect: More Like a Suckrament (duration: 1 Adventure) |
Leads to Honey, They Know the Names
Occurs after They've Got Fun and Games
References
- The adventure name (and the rest in this chain) are lyrics from Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses.
