Lunchtime

Choice adventure number: 160

Lunchtime

At the back of the Defiled Cranny, you encounter a disgusting sight -- a huge ghuol, crouched over a pile of rotting corpses, slurping and grunting as it eats its fill. Disgusting sounds, needless to say, that augment the disgusting sight.

And for that matter, the longer you stand here, the worse it smells. Before any more of your senses get disgusted, you should probably take some action.

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Try to take him by surprise

huge ghuol -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: ghuol ears, ghuol egg Meat Drop: 240-360 Monster Level: 73 • Substat Gain: 53 • Moxie for No Hit*: 83 Monster Defense: 63 Hit Points: 120 Initiative: 60 Elemental Alignment: spooky, weak against hot and stench

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Leave before he finishes

You slink off into the shadows to avoid catching the ghuol's attention. If discretion is the better part of valor, you are the greatest hero the world has ever known, right now.

• Does not cost an adventure.

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Occurs at The Defiled Cranny.

Notes

• A superlikely adventure, always occurring within 4-15 adventures, but only if you've received Go Slow Past the Drawers already.
• Defeating huge ghuol locks the area.
• Choosing to leave before he finishes does not cost an adventure.

References

• "Discretion is the better part of valor" is a common saying, paraphrased from a famous monologue by Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. In the speech, this cowardly fellow is praising himself for faking his own death, since it resulted in his not getting killed: "The better part of valor is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life."